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Danish misses the point on GMOs
I read in the aftermath of the election and the voter rejection of Proposition 105 — RighttoKnow Colorado Label GMOs initiative — your column called “Danish Plan”
where once more pulpit time was given to Danish’s ill-conceived and misinformed opinions about genetically engineered food [Re “Dad’s insecticides and Proposition 105,” Oct. 30]. I swallowed my disbelief and struggled through the sentimental (and fanciful) story about his father’s work with pesticides after WWII and made it to the end where I read, “Proposition 105 is intellectually dishonest, politically and morally evil, and if it results in a resur-
rection of conventional pesticide use, a threat to public health, the environment and the food supply [sic]. A ‘no’ vote is an unqualified good.” Please let Mr. Danish know that there are “victims” of GMOs in abundance; he would find them if he cared to look. This columnist has no credibility with me. Please consider retiring Mr. Danish. Cary MacDonald/Boulder see LETTERS Page 8
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Highroad Reviving the Bush-Cheney torture policy by Jim Hightower
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bumper sticker from around 2008 offered a stinging, fourword response to the BushCheney regime’s enthusiasm for the cruel sport of waterboarding: “Impeach Bush,” it urged, “Torture Cheney.” This comes up again, because there’s a new push — ironically coming from the Obama White House — to revive torture as an acceptable practice by the CIA and others for their interrogation
of terrorist suspects. The irony is that, on this issue, Obama himself has taken a firm stand. As a U.S. senator in 2005, he strongly supported a bill by GOP Sen. John McCain to prohibit American officials from engaging in cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of detainees — not just on U.S. soil, but anywhere in the world. Then, in 2009, on his second day as President, Obama proudly signed an executive order banning torture. Good. Well done. Solid. But a covey of military and spy agency lawyers are suddenly pushing the administration to embrace a loophole that Bush created after Congress passed the McCain bill. Goaded by his snarling, autocratic vice president, George W. claimed that as commander in chief, he could override the torture ban if the cruelty took place in detention camps and other facilities on foreign soil. Even though Obama’s 2009 executive order directly refuted the Bush
For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.
“overseas” loophole, hawkish forces now want the White House to refute its own refutation, giving torture wiggle room and new life in U.S. foreign policy. Unfortunately, the Obamacans are wobbling, with some aides calling this change a “technical” issue. Hardly! A ban is a ban, not a matter of fleeting policy, but of settled moral principle — a statement to the world of who we Americans are. Call the White House comment line to tell Obama to stick to moral principle over the imagined convenience of torture tactics: 202-456-1111. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. November 13, 2014 7
danish plan Driving to ban drilling
Really BAD Ideas If you could have anything in the world for the holidays this year, what would it be?
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bout 150 people turned up like it, the American way of life and at the Plaza Hotel’s American civilization as we know it is Conference Center in dependent on the automobile. And the Longmont last Monday to automobile is dependent on gasoline try to browbeat the Boulder and diesel fuel. County commissioners into banning And that is as true in Boulder oil and gas drilling in Boulder County. County is as it in Los Angeles. Chances are most of them drove to The reason 150 people would drive the meeting. In cars fueled by someto a meeting to protest the activity thing that came out of an oil well. that made it possible to drive to the It’s a near certainty that they drove meeting is that driving is the only to the meeting because — apart from practical way for most of them to get the fact that a lot of them live in other there. If that’s hypocritical, make the parts of Boulder County — the Plaza most of it. Hotel is located in one of the least But the hypocrisy is beside the pedestrian-friendly parts of Longmont. point. The real point is that even peoThe nearest resiple who want to dential neighborban oil and gas hoods are a mile drilling can’t live without it. or more away, the The purpose of hotel is located on the Monday meetor near some of ing was to take the city’s busiest testimony on and noisiest whether or not streets, and the THE REAL Boulder County sidewalk situation POINT IS THAT EVEN should extend its in the area is two-year-old mordicey. (And the PEOPLE WHO WANT atorium on oil and weather on TO BAN OIL AND GAS Monday was cold, gas drilling, which windy and wet.) is due to expire on DRILLING CAN’T LIVE About the only January 1. (The WITHOUT IT. practical way to moratorium is on get to the oil and gas producConference tion, not fracking.) Center, even on a But many of nice day, is to the people at the drive there. meeting demanded that the commisStill, there is something kind of sioners go beyond the moratorium (a hypocritical about driving to a public temporary ban) and permanently ban meeting in order to demand a halt to oil and gas production. the activity that made it possible for State law prevents the commissionyou to drive to the meeting. ers from doing that, a point even the But so what? It can’t be helped. Boulder County Community Rights Every city in Boulder County is Network, the local anti-drilling orgadesigned around the automobile, with nization that evidently turned out most workplaces, shopping areas, resmuch of the attendance at the hearing, taurants, bars and public buildings sep- seems to concede on its website. The arated by design and by zoning from group thinks Boulder County can get where most people live — and suffiaround the state if it turns itself into a ciently spread out from each other that home rule county and writes a charter the only practical way for the overthat gives it the power to impose a whelming majority of people to live ban. To that end, the group was circuand work in such cities is to drive a lating petitions to force an election on car. home rule. It needs about 13,000 sigAnd we like it that way. We have natures to put the issue on the ballot. spent a century and trillions of dollars The idea verges on the delusional. building auto-centric cities and turnIt isn’t just that state law preempts ing the U.S. into an auto-centric country. Like it or not, and most Americans see DANISH PLAN Page 10
THE HYPOCRISY IS BESIDE THE POINT.
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Smart kid!
by Joel Dyer & Dave Kirby
A minimum 3-year extension to Boulder County’s moratorium on fracking and drilling.
And he won’t put his eye out with that.
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Use sculptures to tell more veterans’ stories
This is a great project [Re: “The last man standing,” News, Nov. 6]. It would be great, too, if he could do a sculpture of a bomber crew. Fewer people are aware of how many crewmen were in a bomber, and there have been many fewer movies made of bombers than fighter pilots. Jerry Campbell/via Internet
Elections count
Was that an election? Or was it the puppet show from Sound of Music? The near-future will remind of Newt Gingrich and his “Contract with America,” to be sure. Be sure to hug your Medicare, Social Security, K-12 public education and federal public lands. These are now endangered species. Then what will you do? Elections do have impacts. Had FDR been shot in Miami shortly before his first inauguration, we almost certainly would have lost WWII. If Nixon had been President in October 1962 none of us would be here (Cuban Missile Crisis for those too young). Angry, voters? Again? If you grasp the ID of the true enemy you might be able to save the republic. After Citizens United, it’s OK to turn our government from one man, one vote to one dollar, 100 votes. Free speech for corporations isn’t free; we all pay. We still must take out the trash and tend to our day. But continued kneejerk, listen-to-the-hype-from-Wichita voting practices might lead to a turn where gas masks are needed in the halls
of Congress for reasons other than the stench from its occupants. Greg Iwan/Longmont
Colorado needs public employee pension protection laws
In Colorado, conservative think tanks (backed by Wall Street firms that stand to financially gain) are spreading anti-public-worker propaganda claiming that PERA (Public Employees’ Retirement Association) employees and retirees are greedy parasites and their exorbitant benefits are going to bankrupt the state. They cite billions of dollars of unfunded pension liabilities as debt that taxpayers will have to pay off. Their tactics are to manufacture the perception of a public pension crisis and their only solution to “save PERA” is to drastically cut benefits and privatize the pension plan. They would like to strip PERA employees and retirees of their rights to their earned pension benefits and allow Wall Street hedge fund managers to raid PERA assets. They don’t mention that the Colorado State Legislature has been underfunding its employers’ obligations to PERA for 12 years and that state employers’ unfunded liabilities have accrued into billions of dollars. (Note: These are state employers’ unfunded liabilities. New GASB accounting rules now require state employers to report their unfunded actuarially accrued liabilities owed to PERA in their annual financial statements). see LETTERS Page 10
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Prior to 2003, the Colorado State Legislature had always met its employers’ actuarially required contributions (ARC) to PERA at 100 percent and since PERA began in 1931, it has weathered every recession. Beginning in 2003 (under Governor Owens) to the present, the state legislature has decided not to fund what actuaries have determined is the state employers’ percentage of payroll (ARC) required to keep the PERA trust fund sound. (PERA employees have always met their required employee contributions to PERA from their monthly paychecks without fail). According to statistics from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Public Plans database, the ARC percentages the Colorado State Legislature paid to its employers’ State division were: 2003 = 69 percent, 2004 = 51 percent, 2005 = 48 percent, 2006 = 58 percent, 2007 = 56 percent, 2008 = 63 percent, 2009 = 61 percent. From 2003 to 2009, the Colorado State Legislature created a 42 percent funding shortfall in its State division. PERA’s underfunding can be directly traced to the Colorado State Legislature’s failure to make its employers’ actuarially required contributions. If you ask your state legislator why the state is not meeting its employers’ annual required contributions to PERA, they may not even be aware that the state legislature is underfunding PERA,
or even know what an ARC is. They will likely say, “Oh, PERA was fixed in 2010 with SB 1,” but they won’t answer your question. If you keep asking, some legislators may not want to talk with you because they do know. They know the money is being diverted and they know retirees got fleeced with SB 1. In 2010, the Colorado State Legislature passed Senate Bill 10-001 with pension reforms that broke its contractual obligations with 50,000 PERA retirees. SB 1 primarily targeted this elderly group with the burden of making up billions of dollars, or 90 percent of the state’s unfunded employers’ contribution shortfall to the PERA fund since 2003. SB 1 was not a “shared sacrifice” as PERA administrators purported in order to sell the deal to employees. Political alliances between corporate lobbyists, legislators and PERA administrators forged this bait and switch deal that was precut outside normal legislative processes. Primarily retirees (not taxpayers) will make up for the billions of dollars of state employers’ contributions diverted from the PERA trust fund that the state legislature has used instead to fund multimillion-dollar corporate handouts and business tax breaks, subsidies and other popular discretionary programs without raising taxes. It’s immoral and corrupt to take elderly middle-class retirees’ earned pension see LETTERS Page 11
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local government from banning drilling. It’s that both the U.S. and Colorado constitutions prevent government from taking private property (like mineral rights) for public use without compensation — and a government decision that denies a citizen (or a company) all uses of his property (like banning him from producing the oil on his land) constitutes a taking. A county’s home rule charter won’t trump constitutional protections that limit government power. A county charter can no more ban drilling than it can ban abortion. The real question both the commissioners and the people of Boulder County should reflect on isn’t a legal one or even an environmental one, but a moral one: Inasmuch as an adequate supply of petroleum is necessary to sustain Boulder County’s way of life — and for the continued survival of the United States — is it moral to ban oil and gas production in Boulder County while continuing to live an
oil-dependent lifestyle? Is it moral to live a petroleum dependent lifestyle and not share some of the environmental burden associated with producing that petroleum — especially when experience has shown that that burden is not particularly great and that most of the impacts are transient? And is it moral to cut off domestic petroleum production before energy alternatives are available — especially when such a cut off will require the United States to import petroleum from hostile nations and possibly go to war to protect the oil supply? I think the answers to those questions are pretty self-evident, and that the folks demanding a ban on drilling oil and gas production are acting immorally. The Boulder County Commissioners should not do the same. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
letters benefits (deferred wages) by stealthy means and shift their wealth to subsidize very very wealthy corporate and business interests. (Google: David Sirota’s report, “The Plot Against Pensions — The Pew-Arnold campaign to undermine America’s retirement security — and leave taxpayers with the bill.” and Matt Taibbi’s article, “Looting the Pension Funds.”) There is also a double standard in Colorado law (SB12-149) that protects county government retirees’ pensions while PERA retirees’ benefits can be abrogated. The PERA retirees’ class action lawsuit against the State of Colorado and PERA for breach of contract is now before the Colorado Supreme Court. Will big corporations try to influence our courts’ decision to protect their colorado corporate subsides? (Google: Center for Public Integrity, Chris Young, “Koch brothers, major corporations sponsor pension reform seminar for judges — Attendees could decide fate of contentious cases across the nation.”) Since enacting SB 10-001, the Colorado State Legislature has continued to underfund its employers’ contributions to the PERA trust fund, even with a $512 million-dollar budget surplus. The 2013 Colorado PERA Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, page 34, states: “In 2013, the actual contributions, as set in statute, were $278.0 million less than the ARC as calculated by the actuaries.” For 12 years, why have PERA trustees not taken action on behalf of public employees to compel the state legislature to fully fund their employers’ contributions to PERA instead of conspiring with corporate lobbyists in 2010 to break the contracts of 50,000 retirees to make up the debt. Every year, the state legislature can always find plenty of money to hand out more and more corporate tax breaks and subsidies, yet the State of Colorado continues to be a deadbeat employer. A subsidy tracker report published by Good Jobs First, “Subsidizing the Corporate One Percent,” found that three-quarters of all the economic development dollars awarded by state and local governments in the name of job creation have gone to just 965 large corporations by tracing parent company to subsidiary ties. The New York Times’ report, “United States of Subsidies,” found Colorado spends at least $995 million per year on incentive programs. CU News Corps’ four part series, “House of Subsidies,” analyzed this year’s Colorado legislative session and the key corporate tax-credit incentive Boulder Weekly
bills lawmakers passed and found that they don’t always work as lawmakers intend and their effectiveness is being challenged by a variety of experts whose candid remarks are worth the read. CU News Corps reporter, Lars Gesing states, “According to the latest Enterprise Zone Annual Report, 7,212 jobs have been created through Enterprise Zone program incentives in fiscal year 2013. At the same time, businesses claimed tax credits for $3.89 billion worth of investments, or more than $530,000 per job.” The Denver Post in 2011 ran an investigative series on the Enterprise Zone program and found that Colorado companies claimed more than $75 million worth of tax credits in 2010, but those companies only created a net 564 jobs. Colorado PERA employees and retirees deserve a pension plan that is adequately funded on an annual basis. Colorado should pass laws similar those recently passed in Tennessee. On May 28, 2014, Republican Governor Bill Haslam of Tennessee signed into law a bill called Public Employee Defined Benefit Financial Security Act of 2014 that requires all local government entities that operate pension plans in Tennessee to pay the payments recommended by their actuaries each year in order to protect the financial stability of local governments and to protect workers’ pensions. (http://www.tn.gov/sos/ acts/108/pub/pc.0990.pdf ) Dinah McKay/Boulder
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Five student poets, chosen as the nation’s best, find poetry can heal wounds and unravel a tangled existence by Elizabeth Miller
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andy Hook, Conn., high school student Ashley Gong writes poetry to process thoughts and emotions, give herself a space for reflection and exploration. “It’s a great way to search for the truth,”
she says. This year, as a literary ambassador, she’d like to take the craft of poetry to places around her town where it could help with the healing that’s still ongoing from the elementary school shooting that took place there two years ago. Madeleine LeCesne, from New Orleans, La., says, “Every poem that I write is a kind of wish to be understood by someone. I just want someone to look into my mind and say, ‘I get it, I understand you.’ And to kind of, in a way, feel needed. I needed to read that poem because it made me understand something about myself that I didn’t know before.” LeCesne has used verses to write her life story, beginning at age 6 when she started writing lines of poetry on the wood frame of her antique bed. Boulder County’s own Julia Falkner, of Louisville, has used the poems she’s written to explore gender and sexuality. “It definitely helped me understand myself bet14 November 13, 2014
ter,” she says, turning through the pages of her notebook where her poems begin in exploded form, like bubble charts spread out over the page, ignoring the lines altogether. Poems are a bridge across time, from a past self to the present one or from person to person in a way that cuts through centuries of dust to express a shared human experience. It alleviates the feeling of being singular and alone in the discovery of ourselves. Poetry helps. That’s the message that comes time and again from the five high school students chosen as National Student Poets this year, the third class in a program run by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers that selects five poets as leaders in their region for writing poetry. In September, they went to the White House and met with First Lady Michelle Obama, honorary chair of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, who congratulated them on their literary achievements. In the course of the year, they will speak at various literary events, including the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, N.J., in October and other events during
National Poetry Month in April. In addition to the recognition, they will spend the year on call to reading events and conducting community service projects as literary ambassadors that will take them to communities and institutions where the idea of writing poetry might not immediately come to mind as the appropriate tool to use to address the problems unique to each place. Previous student poets from the program have visited Alzheimer’s patients, non-native English speakers and incarcerated women. This year, these poets, too, want to use poetry among the people as a way to increase understanding, healing and compassion. The tool the world needs, they say, is as close as a hand putting pen to paper. “The thing I like about [poetry] is the fact that it’s a great space for reflection and exploration. It’s a great medium for processing thoughts, emotions and opinions and it’s a way to search for the truth,” Gong says. Gong, 15, is the daughter of first generation Chinese immigrants who read Chinese poems to her as a toddler. For years, she was a prose writer, then as a freshman, she took a sudden interest in poetry. “Beyond a single individual, it’s also a great connecting tool between people of different ages, backBoulder Weekly
Courtesy of National Student Poets Program grounds and life experiences,” had an antique bed and I would she says. “I believe that today, go behind that bed every night even with the rise of social and just write one line about my media and technology, poetry is day. And then over time those still a great way for people to lines accumulated and I could see connect with each other. For patterns within the lines, and example, it can be a great bridge they turned into poems.” between people, especially when She wrote first in pencil, and you read someone’s poem and then if she liked it, would go you feel such a strong human back over it in marker or crayon. bond with them, even though When Hurricane Katrina hit you’ve never even met the poet New Orleans, LeCesne was livbefore. And it can invoke a sense ing near one of the levees that of universality in the human broke. Her family lost everything, experience, and it can also connot just because six feet of water Julia Falkner, Louisville, Colo. nect people through time by filled their home, but because reading the poems of people who before they could get back home have lived in the past and being — and they were one of the first able to relate to that and draw from what they’ve families to return to New Orleans, she says — their written.” house was looted, and her headboard was stolen. Of the role as a literary ambassador, Gong says, to “I think about it a lot. I would kill to have that her, it means spreading an appreciation of poetry and headboard back just so I could see my mind working, because the entire reason why I generated those lines breaking down stereotypes about the art form. on that headboard was so that I could remember “I think mainly just showing people that there’s a them and hold onto those feelpoet inside of everyone and it’s Courtesy of National Student Poets Program ings forever, so to have it just just a matter of unlocking that taken — it was an investment voice,” she says. that was lost,” LeCesne says. “I think there are artists and The poetry she writes now potential artists everywhere. I correlates in form with who she know if I lived somewhere where poetry wasn’t introduced to me is — she’s Creole, or a little bit or taught to me, I definitely of everything, and describes her wouldn’t have grown up the poetry as jumbled and associasame way, and I think that tive: “I’m a load of things, and opportunity was really important I’m jumbled and I haven’t quite to me,” says the 17-year-old ordered them out yet, but I’m Falkner. learning,” she says. “Every time I She didn’t start off as a poet, write, it’s definitely kind of just a but after finishing a novel for wish to be understood, because I National Novel Writing Month, Ashley Gong, Sandy Hook, Conn. firmly believe that poetry exists she was looking for a project that because there are gaps in lanwould take daily work without guage. If there was a word to requiring as much time. describe the taste of peppermint, if there was just one “I thought that poetry seemed easy — it turned word that meant the taste of peppermint and the out that, not always,” she says. “I found that poetry feeling of tasting peppermint, then we wouldn’t need was a much bigger world than I originally anticipatpoetry. So poetry exists because there are certain ed. … I think it definitely things that can’t be said. There Courtesy of National Student Poets Program helped me understand myself are certain barriers that the better though writing poems, English language and language in because I think no matter what general has, so poetry kind of you’re writing about, your voice pokes holes.” and yourself come through in When she tells people she’s a what you’re writing, so poetry national student poet, their first just helped me kind of establish response is often to declare she’ll a sense of self and come to terms be able to get into any college with myself.” she wants, she says. New Orleans’ LeCesne, 18, “That’s a little disappointing began writing poetry when she because I want to just show this was 6 years old. Her affinity for is not about something to put on verse began with what her paryour resume, this is an actual ents read to her: As a child, the program that’s changing the Madeleine LeCesne, New Orleans, La. first books read to her were game for young poets and I don’t Ovid’s epic poems. just see it as something to put on “I think there’s that desire my resume,” she says. “It’s defiwhen you’re really young, and even now, to just hold nitely a program that I owe my writing to because on to everything because you can feel it slipping without it, I probably wouldn’t have as much faith in away, so when I was young I had that desire to record my writing as I do now.” my thoughts, record my day, but I didn’t have the LeCesne will graduate in the spring, and says attention span to keep a journal,” LeCesne says. “So I she’s not as far along with her college applications in
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part because of this award. “This program is definitely taking all of my attention and that’s not because of the expectations, that’s just me in general. It’s just become what I want to spend my senior year doing,” she says. The program’s components that call for her to work as literary ambassador and teach poetry workshops stand a chance to demystify poetry for her peers, who often respond to the idea of her writing poetry by calling it pretentious. “I think that people associate pretention with just the idea of things they don’t understand,” LeCesne says. And while not everyone may relate to prominent and classic poets like Louise Gluck or Alfred Lord Tennyson, when you see five high school students writing poetry and talking about it and teaching poetry — the verb she uses for what that has the potential to do is “ignite.” Poetry has a place in this world, particularly because of social media, technology and globalization — all of which enable worldwide conversations. “I’m a fighter against globalization but still there’s a certain idea that because the world in a sense is becoming smaller, people are better able to communicate with each other, and so when you have more communication taking place, people are going to want to push the boundaries. They’re going to want to push the limits, and that’s where poetry comes in,” LeCesne says. “What poetry does is it taps into that collectiveness of human emotion,” says Weston Clark, 16, from Indianapolis, Ind. “It kind of creates a connection between people from all walks of life. A poem means a different thing to everyone who reads it, so everyone is affected by the poem in some way.” Clark personally had what he refers to as a “poetry dark ages” — a period in his life when he stopped writing the poems he’d been writing since third grade. It overlaps with middle school years spent at a school he describes as being governed by “primitive survival rules,” where he felt teachers were focused on getting students to pass tests — to the point that they were telling children the answers. “Something about that environment just really discouraged or diverted all of my energy from writing and put it all towards not wanting to fall into that kind of system,” he says. “In middle school I stopped writing poetry, but I never stopped being a poet. I would interpret events that were happening around me and everything I thought was unjust and everything I thought was beautiful, and I would store it somewhere in my mind, unconsciously.” Then he changed schools, and at his new school joined the drama department and creative writing club and began editing a creative publication. His poetry writing, in particular, was nurtured by teachers who encouraged him and his classmates to enter in the Scholastic writing competitions, a gateway to consideration for the National Student Poets Program. But his first year in the contest saw modest returns. “For me, that was a bit discouraging, and I thought maybe regardless of how much I enjoy the craft, maybe poetry isn’t something that I’m going to be good at, or something that I should pursue farther, and so I was on the verge of another dark age,” he says. See POETS Page 16
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lining or things like that, but when it comes to poetry, sometimes it’s like pick up a dictionary and then pick a word at random, then flip through a couple pages and pick another word at random, put them together and just see what happens,” he says. He’d like his own writing to serve as a sort of cultural ambassador for the South, exploring and explaining some of the cultural aspects he’s grown up with — from the food to the bluegrass to the horse races — but didn’t understand were unique until his role in the National Student Poets Program increased his travel opportunities and created chances for him to speak with people from around the country. Among his early stops is a reading for teenagers in town, and he says he’s excited to have the opportunity to talk to other teenagers about poetry. “I really want to get across to people that poetry is not just like rhyming couplets or Shakespearean sonnets, or things like that. There’s a lot of different things, and there’s something for everyone, I think,” he says. “I’ve had that mindset where I dismiss poetry and I kind of ignored it. I just want to make sure if I talk to someone, I at least want to show them that there’s an opportunity to at least try it, and it might not be for them, but just because you don’t think it’s for you doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it and see what you can find. Because that’s what I was doing. I didn’t think I liked poetry, so I just stopped being curious about it. So what I want to tell them is try to be curious — not just about poetry but since I am a poetry ambassador — try to be curious, try to be open-minded and see what comes to you and see what really impacts you.” Among his ideas for a specific group to take poetry to, he says, is the thought of working with students at a boys’ school. “The opinions I’ve heard is that poetry is sometimes treated as kind of a feminine thing, and boys especially don’t think they can write poetry because of that,” he says. “As a boy and someone who likes poetry, I’d like to say that’s not the case. It can be valid for anyone.” None of the community service projects these students will undertake have been finalized yet. They’re all still in early stages of brainstorming — but each of them has an idea for where they’d like to take poetry. Gong is giving some thought to working with organizations in Sandy Boulder Weekly
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Hook to introduce poetry as a method LeCesne says she hopes to go to of healing. Tornado Alley in the Midwestern “I think in regards to Sandy Hook, states. I think the message that’s important to “After Katrina, there was a lot of remember here is really that poetry can talk from people saying, ‘Why would be for anyone a great space to process you go back to New Orleans if this thoughts or emotions in confusing kind of thing happens?’ and when I times, no matter the scale or magniwas watching the news and reading tude,” she says. “I have used poetry for blogs about the tornadoes that were happening in Oklahoma, there was a my own healing after the event, but I lot of the same response, people comchoose to keep those poems private.” menting, ‘Well, why would anyone go The particular group of people back? Why would anyone live there?’” Clark says he’d like to work with is the she says. “You’re Native American staying here population in the because it’s home Dakotas. ... HELP — what makes it “I feel that PEOPLE SEE POETRY FOR home? What their voice would makes a place be a very interestWHAT IT REALLY IS THEN ing voice if they home? What NOT ONLY WILL I BE were to start writmakes you want to ing poetry — the live in this area EDUCATING CHILDREN ... that everyone else feelings and the AND CREATING GREAT in the country emotions and just FUTURE CREATIVE thinks that you’re anything that they crazy for living in? want to say, that WRITERS, I FEEL … I think explorthey feel like they LIKE THAT ALSO IS ing that idea could need to communihelp with the cate with other CONNECTING SOCIETY.” people,” Clark says. healing process.” — WESTON CLARK Bringing more Clark says if Native Americans he could choose to poetry, he says, literary ambassawould bring more Americans to dor as a career option, he would, out of understand Native culture. love for teaching people and love for Falkner is considering using her lit- poetry, and a hope that he can work to erary ambassador role to take poetry to reduce the intimidation that surrounds Gay-Straight Alliance groups. poetry. “I think a lot of my initial attrac“If I can eliminate that and help tion to poetry and then how I develpeople see poetry for what it really is, oped as a writer had a lot to do with then not only will I be educating chilmy identity, my sexual orientation and dren in how to write a poem and creatthe way I felt about gender, about a lot ing great future creative writers, I feel of different things that the GSAs are like that also is connecting society,” he concerned with,” she says. “It’s an says. “It forms a connection between us interesting group to reach out to just because it’s something that we all because of how much I think poetry is share, so the more people I can teach related to identity and I think groups to appreciate poetry, the more connectwith a strong sense of identity are real- ed our people, our society, can be.” ly good artists.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ictor Galvan is an fact that it very clearly restores undocumented immiidentity to a group of immigrants grant and he wants who are so routinely and flippantyou to know it. He’s in ly cast aside as less-than. “It doesn’t just show undocua play about it. mented people struggling and “People who are undocumentsurviving, but it showed us as ed are starting to represent themhuman beings and I think that’s selves,” Galvan says. “That’s the why the play is so powerful,” biggest reason why Do You Know Galvan says. Who I Am? has become such a big The play is currently being success in Boulder County. It’s staged sporadically throughout undocumented people telling their Boulder County, and there are own stories.” plans for a Spanish-language verThe play Do You Know Who I sion of the performance soon. Am? is the product of five 20-ish The group is also working with a immigrants, here in the U.S. illelocal school administration to gally, who stand on stage and tell develop a curriculum about true stories of their experiences. immigration based in part on the And it is the reason why Galvan experiences described in the play. and his four counterparts — Ana Temu, Hugo Juarez, Juan Juarez Galvan talks a lot of “rising to and Oscar Juarez-Luna — will be the occasion,” and says audience given the Youth Peacemakers of members have done so by partici(From left): Juan Juarez, Ana Temu, Oscar Juarez-Luna, Hugo Juarez and Victor Galvan share their the Year Award by the Rocky pating in the conversation with unique stories and takes on immigration in their award-winning play, Do You Know Who I Am? Mountain Peace and Justice cast members and bringing the Center at their annual awards cerissue of immigrant rights into emony on Nov. 15. He soon joined North High School’s debate team. their homes, social circles and workplaces. Galvan, who now works as a Western Slope orgaIt was an opportunity for Galvan to explore those That spirit is what Rocky Mountain Peace and nizer for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, issues, to become comfortable with himself and to Justice Center Co-Administrator Betty Ball says says the play was born out of the lack of accurate repcoagulate his life experience into something that could sticks out about the group, but also unites all the resentation of immigrant issues in the media — repre- be productive in the future. award winners. sentations that differed greatly from his own experi“I’d always speak my mind at school and even “These kids are just undeterred,” Ball says. “These ences after coming to the U.S. with his mother and though I never outted myself and told people I was young people are stunningly courageous and willing to brothers at eight months old. undocumented, I kind of had to stand up for myself speak out on not only behalf of themselves and their “I lived in a single-parent household in pretty as sort of a third party. [As] captain of speech and peers but future generations of people who want to much urban Denver,” Galvan says. “Just seeing a lot of debate, I stood up in class to talk about the DREAM come and live in this country. the injustices that [my mother] went through, losing Act and it became really natural for me to speak up “What courage to come out in the open and say, her job for no particular reason sometimes, always for my friends and my family. ‘Yes, I’m undocumented, this is what it’s like, and finding a way to pay the rent despite not having docu“It stems from a necessity to survive,” Galvan says. we’re going to fight against it. It’s just remarkable,” ments, not having papers, and I think the media defiIt was these experiences that helped form Galvan’s Ball says. nitely had the biggest impact on the way that people part of Do You Know Who I Am? The play, directed by The Peacemaker awards were born in 1996, Ball looked at us. The use of the world ‘illegal,’ [and] award-winner Kirsten Wilson, opened in November says, to honor the legacy of Elise Boulding, a promialways really generalizing all these people in this cate- 2013 and has since enjoyed a string of sold-out pernent local activist and University of Colorado Boulder gory of criminals. Criminal aliens or illegal aliens. formances throughout Boulder, Longmont and professor. Nothing ever really good about immigrants in the Denver. “Elise was just really an amazing figure and is such media and I definitely saw that reflected with students “It started off kind of as a simple way to tell our an inspiration to so many people that we chose to in my school. I’d hear comments from some of the story in a theatrical narrative but it evolved into name the award for her,” Ball says. students in school and I never felt comfortable being something so much greater than that,” Galvan says. The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center “Our goal was to tell our story and channel some of myself, always having to lie about being myself, convenes every year and nominates local and national because I knew there would be consequences — social the things we were feeling. It was more at the people who best live up to the group’s mission of moment a way to heal, a way to share our experiences, “unconditional nonviolence” in a multitude of issues. or legal consequences.” and as a group we decided it would be better as a colGalvan says it was in high school that he started The winner of the overall Peacemaker of the Year paying attention to immigration related issues, includ- laborative piece.” Award is Matt Nicodemus, a local community orgaGalvan says the power of the piece, which has had a nizer and educator who Ball says exemplifies the ing legislation like the DREAM Act and comprehen“profound impact” on audiences so far, comes from the sive immigration reform. group’s mission. 18 November 13, 2014
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The son of two investigate journalists, Nicodemus has worked since the mid-1970s to support and foster social change in a variety of ways. As a student at Stanford University in 1978, he says he caught the activism bug from an anti-draft rally. “One day when I was on the way to a dental appointment, I stopped at a rally and David Harris was speaking. He had spent time in prison for his refusal of the draft, and he spoke and one of our faculty members also spoke and a number of other people. Then there was a young woman who said she was with Stanford Against Conscription and a number of them decided they were going to make a public statement,” Nicodemus says. “Within what seemed like a minute or two, there were 110 other people lined up behind this podium, including me, so we all signed this anti-conscription statement and it was sent off to the attorney general. As I then bicycled off to my dentist appointment I felt an enormous rush of a sense of empowerment and joy because I felt like I was doing something that was completely in line with my beliefs. It was an important decision but I just immediately … I was just getting angry with the concept the government could force somebody to kill another person.” After graduating from Stanford, Nicodemus went on to teach at Humboldt State University in Northern California, including a class he created about the military presence in major academic research institutions. Nicodemus says the infiltration of military influence in higher education was bad, but that the peace and social activism movement (especially here in Boulder) could learn from their tactics, including the point that it’s important Boulder Weekly
to cast a wide net when tackling social change. “When you get involved with things like this you say, ‘What is real peace?’ It’s not just the absence of war,” Nicodemus says. “There are a lot of different aspects of what creates the world as it is and what’s needed to create a better world and it involves worker’s issues, women’s issues … All the oppressions are tied together and all the solutions are tied together. So over the years, I’ve been in so many issues, but they’re all part of the same quest for world peace.” Nicodemus says one of the keys to his success as an activist was the inquisitive nature of his journalistic parents. It’s no surprise then the winner of the Peacemakers Lifetime Achievement Award is local radio host and author David Barsamian. Famous for his interviews with Noam Chomsky, Barsamian has directed a fascinating career, diving into major national and international social issues over the last three decades. He hosts a weekly radio show on KGNU in Boulder featuring interviews with progressive thinkers like Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Robert McChesney and Glenn Greenwald. “What he has done to make sure truth is spoken to power and people have information they need to be change makers is just remarkable. It’s groundbreaking and his voice reaches far and wide,” Ball says. The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center Peacemakers of the Year Awards will be held at 5 p.m. on Nov. 15, and will feature an abridged performance of Do You Know Who I Am? and live music. Tickets are $30 per person and $15 for students. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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The Colorado Climate Summit will engage participants in problem-solving sessions, culminating in each attendee committing to a personalized contract outlining how they will make the switch to renewable energy by 2020 and reduce their water consumption by 50 percent by 2025.
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obert Castellino has worn a lot of hats over the last 20 years — he ran the ski-racing program at Eldora in the early ’80s, worked in telecommunications, founded his own greeting card company, supported adolescents as a youth minister and, as a lifelong photographer, has authored five photographic story and guide books about Boulder, Denver and Colorado at large. Now he’s donned another hat — environmental activist. “I’ve always had a passion for the environment and the books I’ve written in the past … have always had a component about the ecology of commerce and our place in relationship to nature in Colorado,” Castellino says. “Nature has always driven my experience in Colorado and everything I know about the land and how it defines us. So that’s been at the core of my passion as a photographer, being in touch with nature, the land, the diversity of the landscape and the people in it, how we celebrate it in our everyday lives. That’s why so many of us come here, to be connected with the outdoors and enjoy 20 November 13, 2014
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this amazing lifestyle we have.” A little more than two years ago, Castellino decided he needed to take action to save the natural beauty that has inspired him throughout his life. On Nov. 15 and 16, the result of Castellino’s decision will culminate in the Colorado Climate Summit, a conference that Castellino says will move attendees past the conversation about the global climate crisis and toward solving the problem. There will be some of the usual conference trappings — keynote speakers will kickoff the event: Alison Holloran, executive director at Audubon Rockies; Mario Molina, strategist and department director with the Climate Reality Project’s Climate Leadership Corps; and Coreina Chan, manager in the Rocky Mountain Institute’s buildings practice division. But after a series of presentations with experts, the conference will get hands-on. Attendees will break out into teams, based on geography and expertise, and work with presenters to solve a series of real-world problems facing Coloradans, from glacial melt to drought to beetle kill to fire, in hopes of
Robert Castellino, founder and CEO of the Colorado Climate Summit, has spent the last two years networking with environmental activists around the state to make the conference a reality.
not only addressing the ecological effects but the economic bearing as well. “Here is the major deal — the Switch 2020 contract,” says Castellino. “We are requesting that every person who participates ... sign their own con-
tract, a check list based on how far down the road they are, what they are going to do to make the switch to renewable energy by 2020 and reduce their water footprint by 50 percent by 2025. Accountability is part of the process.” Castellino says even those who can’t attend the summit will still be able to create their own Switch 2020 contract by reaching out to summit participants who live near them. Castellino plans to work with other summit organizers to create an online map of participants, allowing people around the state to find someone in their community who can share the knowledge they gleaned from the conference. “That notion of community is the driver here,” says Castellino. “How can we reach 64 counties and make a difference on the ground — there are seven regions in our state and we have different cultural interests based on where we live in Colorado. How can we reach out across these cultural barriers, geographically and demographically, bringing together people who aren’t just activists but who are doing things?” Boulder Weekly
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Participants at the Colorado Climate Summit will work with presenters to solve a series of climate change-related issues facing Coloradans, addressing both the ecological effects as well as the economic bearing.
Castellino says that diversity is key watchdog, and Spiegel of Frack Free to addressing the climate change crisis, Colorado will act as presenters at the and he’s got the numbers to back up summit. that belief. Census data shows that Castellino says women’s role as Latinos make up approximately 21 per- leaders in combating climate change cent of the state’s population, and has a financial aspect as well. The averaccording to projections from the State age household in Colorado spends Demography Office, Latinos will make between $650 and $1,200 a month on up one-third of Colorado’s population energy — that’s everything from heatby 2040. To address the state’s fastest ing and cooling and electricity to purgrowing demographic, the Colorado chasing gasoline for a car. Castellino Climate Summit partnered with the says that, on average, women make Americas Latino Eco-Festival. ALEF decisions about how finances are spent Executive Director Irene Vilar will on energy in the home 83 percent more present at the summit. often than men. So if women can be But it’s more than just people of convinced to make changes in the home color that Castellino sees as leaders in — installing solar panels; purchasing an the movement to combat climate electric car; changing insulation, furchange. naces and hot water heaters to energy“When we start engaging with the efficient models — millions of environmental moveColoradan families will ment and NGOs, we make the switch. A big factor in start talking to leaders INFO BOX Colorado convincing people to like Anna Zawisza, Climate Summit. 9 a.m. Nov. 15 & 16, Getches-Wilkinson make that shift, says who is the executive Center for Natural Castellino, is convincdirector of the Resources, University of ing them that it’s Alliance for Colorado Boulder, 2450 Kittredge Loop Road, 303within their economic Sustainable Colorado 492-8047, $65, $25 for reach. Castellino in Denver, and you students. meet other executive points to financing directors like Alison programs that allow Holloran, who’s the executive direchouseholds and businesses to install tor of Audubon Rockies,” says photovoltaic and solar thermal systems. Castellino. “The list goes on. You meet However, Chris Ellis, an associate leaders like Leslie Glustrom. Suzanne professor of integrated energy at Spiegel with Frack Free Colorado. Colorado Mountain College and preWomen are playing a significant role in senter at the summit, acknowledges this. They are often times the vocal that making these changes are often ones and they are not afraid to take easier said than done. action for the benefit of their family “It’s difficult for people to think in and home. And women are often times terms of prepaying their energy bill better networkers and more engaged in seven years ahead even though they community-building.” know they won’t have an energy bill Along with keynote speaker Holloran, after that,” Ellis says. “It’s like if I told Glustrom, a longtime Xcel Energy you, you have to pay for your car in Boulder Weekly
cash, but then it won’t cost you to run it. How many people think two to five years out, much less two to three weeks out?” For Ellis, addressing this issue means teaching children about renewable energy. “If we can teach people that energy literacy at a young enough age, get them starting to think in terms of ‘What am I going to do that I’m passionate about, then what am I going to do in terms of setting aside this money so I can do renewables?’ then we can start to see a shift [in the public at large].” Since 2012, Ellis has worked with groups of students to install solar systems in three Garfield County libraries. The students built the systems, from the design to the actual installation. “How do you get these kids to see a vision 20 or 30 years out of what they want to become?” Ellis asks. “Remember Charlie Brown’s teacher? I don’t want to be that teacher. Let’s do something fun and sneak the science in when you’re not looking.” While Castellino says he doesn’t think Colorado can single-handedly reverse the course of the climate crisis, he does believe Coloradans can be global leaders. “I see we’ve lost touch with this treasure ... of a relationship with nature. Celebrating the power of the mountains, the plains, the desert landscape in the Southwest, places as far west as Gateway, the Dolores River — places people don’t know because they are so [engrossed in] the comforts of their urban environment,” he says. “We are very hard on this planet. We wield a very big stick here, and we have to learn how to walk softly.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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t the hearing called by Boulder County Commissioners on Monday, Nov. 10 in Longmont, public support for a further extension of the county’s moratorium on fracking was relentless, with most commenters requesting at least a threeand-a-half-year extension. Boulder County residents cited the need for more research on fracking’s health effects and the need to delay oil and gas development until a National Science Foundation study can be completed in late 2017. Members of the public also pointed to new data on escaping methane emissions as a reason to delay drilling. Numerous examples of those negatively impacted by the current drilling boom were given, including that of a woman living near wells in Garfield County whose granddaughter’s blood has such high levels of hydrocarbons that if it were outside her body, it would be considered hazardous waste. Speakers also pointed to a Physicians for Social Responsibility statement endorsing extending oil and gas development moratoriums. “June 2018 is a reasonable amount of time. It’s justifiable to let the science happen, let other things happen,” said Neshama Abraham with Frack Free Boulder and Frack Free Colorado. “As the citizens have said, by pausing oil and gas, we have a chance to let our renewable energy future take place. Give us that chance.” In June 2013, following great public pressure and heated public meetings with anti-fracking activists, Boulder’s County Commissioners voted to extend the moratorium on oil and gas development for 18 months. That moratorium is set to expire on Jan. 1, 2015. Public testimony at the November hearing was preceded by a presentation from Boulder County land use department staff that reviewed the history of oil and gas development in the county. Staff covered recent and ongoing research on fracking as well as the changing legal landscape, including recent lawsuits against Front Range municipalities. Staff also mentioned the state oil and gas taskforce that resulted from the compromise between Gov. Boulder Weekly
John Hickenlooper and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis that pulled anti-fracking measures from November’s ballot. Kim Sanchez, Boulder County’s planning division manager, said the latest projections from the consulting firm the county retained estimated a “drill out” period of 16 years and a total of 609 wells in Boulder County if the moratorium were to be lifted. Patrick Murphy, who has been hired by the county as an oil and gas specialist, said that in his site visits to monitor oil and gas development, he detected leaks at 43 percent of the 219 sites he visited and signs of past releases at 29 percent of sites. Approximately 150 people attended the Monday afternoon meeting. Throughout the afternoon’s threehour session, the comments were unanimously in favor of extending the moratorium. Signs lining the front hallway (attendees are asked to keep signs outside so everyone in the meeting can see) read: “Don’t frack our water,” “California aquifers contaminated with arsenic from fracking waste water,” “10 barrels of water produces one barrel of oil.” Before the meeting had even begun at 2 p.m., three-minute time slots for public comment were booked until after 9:30 p.m. At a press conference prior to the hearing, representatives from Our Longmont, 350 Boulder County, Sierra Club, Food & Water Watch and Frack Free Colorado issued statements urging the county commissioners to extend the moratorium on oil and gas development in Boulder County. “The threat is too great,” Lisa Trope with Food and Water Watch said. “We’ve found over the last year that there’s been research that found people living near fracking wells have had an increase in health impacts, and also there have been numerous counts of water contamination across the country.” Commissioners will discuss the information presented at the Monday meeting and issue their decision on Thursday, Nov. 13. Frack Free Colorado is hosting a community meeting on fracking at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 at Unity Church, 2855 Folsom St. in Boulder. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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rive along Highway est home, will “protect communi119 south of ties and restore natural processes Nederland or to forest ecosystems.” Yet some Highway 9 south of Coloradans point to science demFrisco and you’ll see onstrating that logging is often large swaths of bare soil and scatineffective at stopping large wildtered slash — including entire fires and can even make them hillsides — where once there was spread more quickly by opening forest. These aren’t future subdivithe forest to sunlight and wind. sions, but the Arapaho and White “We have learned that forest River National Forests. thinning is rarely effective under The U.S. Forest Service is extreme burning conditions, and undertaking logging with the goal the severity of fire in adjacent forof keeping communities and the ests has little to do with whether a forest safe from wildfire. The home burns,” says Tania project is funded by taxpayers to Schoennagel research scientist at the tune of $1,200 per acre. But University of Colorado Boulder’s Residents of Nederland and Frisco are disputing the value of clearcutting as a fire-prevention tool. some locals, upset about the Institute of Arctic and Alpine changes to the forest they know Research and co-author of a new and love, are questioning if logstudy titled Learning to Coexist ging can really protect their homes with Wildfire. and whether wildfire is as much of While the wisdom of logging a threat to the forest as they’re to prevent wildfire continues to being told. be debated, the most effective Some residents of the mounaction homeowners can take to tain towns Nederland and Frisco prevent their homes from burning are up in arms about these “fuel is to tend an area 100 feet to 200 reduction” logging projects. Forest feet surrounding the structure, Service efforts often include cutcalled the home ignition zone, ting down thousands of acres of according to the Forest Service’s public forests that many enjoy as a quiet place to rec- Lump Gulch Fuel Treatment Project will cut 500 Rocky Mountain Research Station. One study reate, including the popular West Magnolia acres in the Arapaho National Forest outside of showed 95 percent of homes with metal roofs and a Mountain Bike Trail in Nederland and the section of Nederland, with much of the material piled to burn maintained area of 30 feet to 60 feet survived fires. the nationally renowned Colorado Trail outside of on site, according to Marcia Gilles, public affairs speVivian Long of Nederland, president of the Frisco. cialist for the Arapaho National Forest. Both areas Magnolia Forest Group, says she doesn’t subscribe to The Ophir Mountain Forest Health and Fuels have recently experienced the native mountain pine the Forest Service “rationale of logging for fire proReduction Project consists of 1,500 acres of clearcuts beetle, an epidemic that peaked between 2007 and tection to save us from the big fire.” She’s concerned in the White River National Forest outside of Frisco, 2009 and has since subsided. that clearcutting will simply create another “spindly, with trees chipped and trucked 70 miles to the Eagle The Forest Service contends that logging these Valley Clean Energy biomass facility in Gypsum. The forests, which are in some cases miles from the nearSee FORESTS Page 26
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lodgepole thicket” in the forest, cle written for NASA’s Earth which the agency might want to Observatory. log again in the future for the Scott Fitzwilliams, forest same reason. Her group is in dissupervisor of the White River National Forest, acknowledges cussion with the agency in hopes the controversy, yet explains the of amending some of the ongoneed for projects such as Ophir ing logging in the area. Mountain and the upcoming As in Nederland, locals in Keystone Vegetation Frisco are concerned that logging Management to give firefighters a will have a negative impact on “chance to protect homes, properrecreational resources that are a ty and power lines.” He is also national draw, including ski areas concerned about what’s going to and the Colorado and happen over the next few years Continental Divide trails. when beetle-killed trees start fallHaving spoken to forestry ing, risking the safety of recreexperts and studied the woods as ationists and creating a “tangled he hikes, Howard Brown of mess.” Silverthorne says he would prefer As more and more people to see the lodgepole pines inhabit Colorado’s forests, the around trails like the Peaks Trail chance of a community experileft alone to eventually become encing wildfire increases. Federal, spruce-fir climax forest, rather regional, state and local grants than turned into a “war zone.” Research suggests whether houses survive wildfires may have less to do with density of neighboring He’s worried about the harm to are available for home treatments, forests and more to do with mitigation efforts taken in the immediate vicinity of the house. the local resort community of while Saws and Slaws is bringing Breckenridge, as the clearcuts community members around transform from “thickets, to overgrown Over the past century, attempts fires, including large, catastrophic ones, Nederland, Coal Creek Canyon and were historically quite common in Christmas tree lots, to dense scrawny have been made to suppress wildfire Sugarloaf together to make homes firelodgepole monoculture.” out of concern for communities and at Colorado and that large fires are more wise and feast together afterward, with a product of drought, high tempera“When you live next to the forest, the behest of the timber industry. The projects starting up again in the spring. there’s a chance there’s going to be a perspective of industry, the Forest tures and wind than fuel levels. Studies No matter what happens in the forforest fire,” says Frisco resident Don Service, and some environmental have shown that large wildfires are est, Fitzwilliams says the Forest Service Cacace, who has opposed the Ophir groups is that fire suppression has often just as likely to burn through is going to feel the heat. If they cut Mountain project since its inception. resulted in overgrown forests full of clearcuts devoid of most fuels, as they trees in an attempt to prevent wildfire, “The last thing we want to do is cut dangerous “fuel” — either dense stands are through densely-stocked forests. they’ll be criticized by those who’d down the forest.” of live trees or beetle kill — that is While beetle-killed trees in the rather see nature take its course. If they No one denies the inevitability of causing more frequent and destructive Rockies have been impossible to do nothing and a wildfire ignites, wildfire in Colorado. Rocky Mountain wildfires. The proposed cure for these ignore, Bill Romme, who teaches forest they’ll be blamed for that, too. forests have evolved with fire over the sick forests is a logging prescription and fire ecology at Colorado State Fitzwilliams says there’s science and millennia as a natural and essential comthat will restore the forest and keep University, says there is “little or no emotion on all sides of the issue, and such relationship between beetleponent of western forest ecosystems. Fire people safe, while gleaning some meradds “we’re going to have to make kills off some trees to make room for chantable lumber or biomass energy. caused tree mortality and subsequent some choices that are sometimes hard future growth, returns vital nutrients to Recent science has challenged these fire occurrence and severity in lodgeto swallow.” pole pine forests,” as quoted in an artithe soil and creates wildlife habitat. assumptions, demonstrating that wildRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Recent CU grad and CUFST team member Kirk Drogsvold charges through a snowdrift in the Italian Alps. A passionate skier, Drogsvold came to CU in part because of the University’s proximity to world-class skiing.
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one,” says Devan Corona, There is Western State in who oversees university Gunnison, just down the relations for the program. road from Crested Butte. “There’s park and pipe, Fort Lewis in Durango, there’s skier cross and there with the powder charms of are big mountain events as Purgatory just up the road well.” way. Colorado Mountain According to Corona, College with campuses in Former CUFST member and recent CU graduate Kelsey Wotilla enjoys some untouched snow in Monterosa, Italy. Traveling and skiing with fellow CUFST team members was a highlight of her time at CU. this year should be another Leadville, the Eagle Valley big one for the team. and Steamboat (which offers “There’s a collegiate big degrees in ski area managemountain series for the first time,” he says, adding ment). And there’s the big one, the University of Monument. that he expects to see many CUFST athletes compete Colorado right here in Boulder. But make no mistake about it, there are some in that three-event series which features stops at The University of Colorado attracts skiers, there’s damn good skiers who are part of the club’s competiGrand Targhee, Wyo.; Crested Butte, Colo. and no doubt about it. The varsity ski team is one of the tion program: CUFST has won five National Snowbird, Utah. best in the nation, with 19 national championships. Collegiate Freestyle Skiing Championships and And then there’s park and pipe. These disciplines But what about those who maybe don’t want to ski brought home 39 individual first place national finexploded onto the general public’s consciousness at race? The kids who like hitting kickers, or skiing ishes. The CU Freestyle Ski Team swept the 2012-13 the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, where American powder or jumping off cliffs or bashing bumps? For National Collegiate Freestyle Skiing Championships, athletes shined in the halfpipe and slopestyle events. them, there’s the CU Freestyle Ski Team (CUFST), a including winning both the individual men’s and For the collegiate athletes on the CUFST, the team club sport organization that is the largest ski club of women’s overall titles, the team overall halfpipe title provides the opportunity to dream big, and perhaps its kind in the nation and, like the alpine racing team, for men and women, team overall slopestyle title for even step it up to a spot on the U.S. national team. one of the best as well. men and women and the overall national team title “We’ve seen some really good results in those disWith a membership that is open to all students, for men and women. ciplines,” says Corona. the CUFST is run and managed by student members. Those results stand up very well to some of the How good? CUFST athletes were a force to be There’s the competition aspect, with coaching and more publicized sports at the university (football, reckoned with at last winter’s World University training and the opportunity to compete in halfpipe, anyone?). Games in Trentino, Italy, with student athlete Jeremy slopestyle, moguls, big mountain, skier cross and The CUFST’s competition program was originalBrown taking seventh in the slopestyle event and felother events, and then there is the social aspect. Team ly started in 1990 to create opportunities for mogul low CUFST team member Connor O’Brian notching members share rides to the slopes, travel on spring skiers. However, as the sport of skiing evolved, so did break ski trips together and go on camping trips to the team’s programs. see CU FREESTYLE Page 32 places like Colorado’s Sand Dunes National “We have competition opportunities for every-
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up a top 20 finish in team,” admits CU INFO BOX The CU Freestyle the same discipline. senior Katie Ski Team meets every week But talk to Hitchcock. “We all on Tuesday nights. Team organizers’ profiles, training CUFST members and have a shared pasinformation, competition coaches and they’ll sion.” schedules, sponsorship opportunities and other inforsay that while results Hitchock, a bigmation can be found here: in big events like the mountain skier at cufst.com collegiate nationals or heart, says that the the World University community keeps her Games are great, the excited and stoked. reason why the team has been success“It’s been a really positive experiful is that it caters to skiers of all abilience,” says CUFST team member ties. Todd Holtan. “I’ve learned a lot.” Never skied before and want to “The team is what you make of it,” learn how to turn left and right? Not adds Holtan. “The foundation is in only will you be welcomed to the team, place and you get what you put into it you’ll find teammates willing to give and it’s been really rewarding for me.” the time and energy so that you’ll end While Holtan and Hitchock plan up not only being able to turn both to compete this season, you don’t have ways, but able to stop as well. to compete or have ever competed be a part of the program. Still, it’s a good “I don’t know who I would be hanging out with if I wasn’t part of the way to get involved and improve your 32 November 13, 2014
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If the chill in the air and the snow on the ground didn’t make it clear — ski season is upon us, and Warren Miller’s latest installation is screening at Boulder Theater to kick off the season. Warren Miller’s 65th film, No Turning Back, is a legacy tour that begins with stories that pre-date edges on skis and ends with big mountains, including a guest appearance from Colorado’s own Beaver Creek where Julia mancuso, Ted Ligety, Mikaela Shiffrin and Bode Miller push the speed limit on steep slopes.
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Shop Orientation. 9 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Place, Suite 1000, Boulder, 720-5656019. Registration required. Warren Miller’s ‘No Turning Back.’ 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7667030. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Birds of Prey Slide Program. 6 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-6786214. Warren Miller’s ‘No Turning Back.’ 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-766-7030. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Wheel Truing Workshop. 6:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Place, Suite 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019. Registration required. The Wild & Natural Beauty of Patagonia. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-786-8406. To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. attn: “Adventure.”
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SDFF. According to Withey, SDFF receives, “somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,300 submissions” from Withoutabox (an online submission service for film festivals), and receives another 400-500 submissions from, “foreign sales agents, specific country’s national film organizations, U.S. distributors, etc.” Those 1,800 are then whittled down into the visual feast that SDFF is. The theme for this year’s festival is “Step Into The Story,” and the journey begins on Nov. 12 with a screening of 5 to 7 at the Buell Theatre with writer/director Victor Levin in attendance. Starring Anton Yelchin and former Bond girl Bérénice Marlohe, 5 to 7 is a romantic movie set in the always-romantic setting of Paris. Like Opening Night, Big Night, Closing Night and two Red Carpet Matinees will all be held at the Buell Theatre. For Big Night (Nov. 15), SDFF brings The Imitation Game, a historical biopic about English World War II code cracker Alan Turing, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. The two Red Carpet Matinees, Touch the Wall (Nov. 15, documenta-
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these programs look to promise exactly that. Focus on National Cinema: Brazil features 13 submissions from the country that held the world’s focus during this summer’s World Cup. Included in the program is a 35mm presentation of Marcel Camus’s 1959 Black Orpheus, one of the more unique takes on the Orpheus and Eurydice tragedy from Greek mythology. Women+Film is an ongoing program for Denver Film Society, but for SDFF they are pulling out all the stops and bringing in some excellent work. I have already seen Walking Under Water (Nov. 17 & 19) at this year’s Los Angeles Film Fest, and am happy to report that it is a magnificent narrative/documentary hybrid. Director Eliza Kubarska worked closely with the Badjao people of the Philippines (a tiny group who spend their working hours under water diving for fish and items to sell) and was given unprecedented access to their community and way of life. The movie is visually stunning and a precious depiction of a culture that, as you will see in the movie, is rapidly disappearing. Another I have seen and can recommend comes from the Contemporary World Cinema Program, Of Horses and Men (Nov. 16 & 17). Set in a small Icelandic village that derives its income from a beautiful breed of horse indigenous to the area and the tourism that it brings, this collection of vignettes paints a lush picture of a small town community that contains hilarious rivalries, grievances, affections and camaraderie. The setting may be completely foreign, yet
their actions and behaviors seem all too familiar. Also playing: Foxcatcher (Nov. 19), from director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball), one I have been dying to see since it debuted at Cannes this May. Wild, the latest from Jean-Marc Vallée (The Dallas Buyers Club), stars Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed, who’s best selling autobiography provides the basis for the movie. Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence (Nov. 14 & 15), is his documentary follow up to The Act of Killing — one of the most disturbing and haunting movies ever made — where the family members of victims confront the perpetrators of genocide. Harrowing, but extremely important stuff. Too heavy? Then check out the documentary 21 Years: Richard Linklater (Nov. 22 & 23), which covers the work of the beloved filmmaker. Esteemed film critic and writer David Thomson will screen The Drop (Nov. 15) and talk about the career of British actor Tom Hardy, whose praises I too sang in a review of Locke earlier this year. And that is the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Just 12 titles out of 252. Last year it was Grigris. This year, who knows? As Alexander Pope said, “Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” and that aphorism is never more accurate than when the lights go down and the curtain goes up. They don’t call it “the magic of the movies” for nothing, and I can’t wait to step into this year’s story. I hope to see you there. Additional information is at www. denverfilm.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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hen people say they eat, opportunities as well. One minute they with a set idea about what the songs breathe and sleep can be crooning softly on a more tradiwould be about, how they would be something they love, it tional folk track or love song, and the constructed, or if there was even going is usually hyperbole; next they can be hollering at the moon to be a narrative theme running not so with Michael like wolves on the prowl. The duo throughout the record. It could have Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, the huswanted to try some new things with worked out that way and Swimmin’ band-and-wife duo who make up the this recording, so they were open to any Time could have developed into some Charleston, S.C.-based Shovels & and every idea that came their way, sort of concept record, but if that had Rope. When it came to the making of which is to the album’s benefit and to been the case, it would have been comtheir new album, Swimmin’ Time — their credit as songwriters. And rather pletely by accident. Hearst is OK with which released in August this approach because their Leslie Ryan McKellar — they worked on it every way of doing things feels chance they got, but they more authentic to them. weren’t holed up in a stu“It’s not like ‘This is a dio for weeks at a time. genius masterpiece work “It was more like, ‘We of music that must be have one day off on this organized in this exact tour, so let’s go in and way,’” Hearst says. “I know record while we can,’” says bands have made records Hearst, who sings and that way and God bless plays several instruments. ’em for doing it, but we “We were working don’t really think about it every spare minute on it,” that much. It’s more like, adds singer and multi‘Hey, that one sounds instrumentalist Trent. “But good. Let’s write another it’s not like we had the one.’” studio booked for months But while there aren’t and could go in and say, ‘I strict guidelines for how feel like putting some bells they approach their on this one today. Bring albums as a whole, that’s out the bells!’ It was more, not to say they don’t ‘Let’s park at the Sonic approach particular songs and edit these strings real that way. Most of their quick.’” work, for example, steers Swimmin’ is filled with clear of being overly perenergy and verve, mirrorsonal, but they know such ing the focus, determinasongs can still leave a tion and adventurous spirit mark if done properly. the duo needed to have in Again, it’s all about how Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst are going to be looking foxy at order to complete the well you are paying The Fox Theatre this Sunday. album. The rock track attention when an idea “Evil” is as dirty and sinisstrikes. ter as the title suggests, while “Fish than being a hindrance, having time “‘Save the World’ was us trying to Assassin” is a raw, tribal track featuring constraints was a source of inspiration find three hopeful things in a day to thumping percussion, a tambourine and for them. think about,” Trent says, “just because Trent and Hearst’s raucous vocals. “For me it’s better that way and on that particular day we were bummed “Stono River Blues” is a groovy piece of kind of inspiring,” says Trent. “I feel out about whatever.” Appalachian folk that could easily fit like the good ideas come hard and fast “About trying to save the world atinto a chain gang’s repertoire, and and you’ve got to grab ’em if you’re pay- large,” Hearst laughs. “Ohio” sounds like a ragtime track set ing attention. You have a small window “We just wanted to spread a little to fuzzy guitars and put on super slowwhen the ideas are coming and are hope around,” Trent continues. “But mo. fresh and inspiring, so you have to capi- yeah, [our work is] not usually autobioThe record is bursting with ideas talize on that.” graphical, and if it is, it’s embellished in and not only demonstrates the band’s Taking a flying-by-the-seat-ofa way that we’ve turned ourselves into willingness to explore different genre their-pants approach to the music also crazy cartoon versions of ourselves.” ideas, but their excitement for such Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com means they did not go into the studio Boulder Weekly
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A glitch is the system
World-renowned audio visual performance artists to take over BMoCA for MediaLive by Josh Gross
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n the business world, a computer think it’s really easy as a glitch typically is the first step in a musician to look at it and cascading series of problems better say, ‘That all could have avoided. But in the art world, the been prerecorded.’ But dreaded glitch is being harnessed as the dynamism, the interits own medium, with the flaws, hiccups action with the crowd, and imperfections layered atop digital pop that’s a different experience. There’s culture images for a somewhat Warhol something in the moment about doing 2.0 aesthetic. Controlled, buggy video that. There’s something not predeterachieves a cadence, distorted images a mined or done with the opportunity to sort of digital cubism and twisted sound fix your mistakes like you’d have if you sculpts the presence of a room. And when were prerecording.” it’s all combined together for a live perDial-Kay says the best way to formance, that’s where you’ll find understand glitch artists is as cinema MediaLive, which will be going down at pioneers, piecing together sounds and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art images as fully immersive experimental and other locations in films. Boulder on Friday, Nov. “I think it speaks ON THE BILL: MediaLive. Various times, Friday, Nov. 14-Sunday, Nov. 16. most effectively to our 14-Sunday, Nov. 16, BMoCA “It’s a festival that generation because we’re (and other locations around celebrates live audioviinundated with conBoulder), 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, sual performance,” stantly moving images $5-$20. Full schedule at www. says Nicole Dial-Kay, and sound,” she says. “It bmoca.org manager of public defines the way we proprograms at BMoCA. cess everything. “It’s the only one of its Relationships. Jobs. kind in the United States.” How we handle our to-do list for the Dial-Kay says that what sets day.” MediaLive apart from other domestic Dial-Kay says that what the images glitch art festivals is they largely focus depict isn’t really the point, that it’s more on new media works, while MediaLive about the atmospheric pastiche that insists they be performances, with the comes with information stew, and there sounds and images being created or really isn’t anything else quite like it. manipulated in front of an audience on “This is a representation of the most computers, or with a wide variety of on-the-edge film work in the art musical instruments. world,” she says. “[Despite the laptops,] there is still Artists participating in this, the third a live manipulation of the sound that’s year of the festival, include locals like happening,” says Dial-Kay. “There’s still Jenna Maurice and Thug Entrancer, as deciding in the moment how to do it. I well as major international acts like
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::VTOL::, Josh Ott and Analogous Recursions. If none of those names mean much to you, you’re probably in the majority. But Dial-Kay says this is not a situation to worry about going into blind. “The artists that we’re bringing are world famous, they’re top notch,” says Dial-Kay. “They’re the best at this.” The festival will be headlined by Light Surgeons. The group’s members are coming in from London and Malaysia and will use 360-degree visual projection and sound design to create a fully immersive experience. Dial-Kay says they are even planning to incorporate elements of cooking and serving Malaysian food into the act. “The thesis of MediaLive is that we’re always looking for what’s happening at the corners of live audio visual performance, how it’s expanded and how it’s continuing to expand and how they are continuing to redefine what’s possible when you combine performance with audio and visual performance,” says Dial-Kay. “I think that Light Surgeons probably encapsulate [this] better than any other artists I’ve seen because they use all that.” In addition the performances on Friday and Saturday, MediaLive will be hosting a whole day of workshops on Sunday in which those interested in
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glitch art can learn from the masters. There will be sessions covering techniques used by the participating artists, their guiding philosophies and a session in which participants will learn to build their own theremin — the weird instrument played by manipulating magnetic fields to get that creepy “whoooooo” sound from old sci-fi films. “Everyone has a fascination with the theremin,” says Dial-Kay. Another big part of the festival that Dial-Kay hopes people don’t overlook because it is offsite is an art installation that will go in at the Boulder Public Library through Sunday, Nov. 16. “It’s totally interactive with everyone that is walking by,” says Dial-Kay. MediaLive is especially hoping to bring in a younger audience, both with several workshops at Boulder High School and a special discounted student price. The full lineup of performances, workshops and day pass prices can be found at www.BMoCA.org, but know that the most a day pass will run you is $20, and as Dial-Kay points out, MediaLive is a lot more than just a performance. “It’s no longer just on the screen,” she says. “If you go to this, you’re going to see all of these things and you’re going to become part of it.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com
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Anna Lou. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. Bonnie Simms & Friends Birthday Show. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Chadwick Stokes. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303447-0095. Dana Cooper. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720340-4169. David & Enion Tiller. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Denny Driscoll. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont,
Augustus CD Release Party
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10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720328-8328.
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In a local music scene neck-deep with string bands, Boulder folk-soul trio Augustus has been winning fans over with foot-tappin’ tales passionately crooned over bluesy, Americanainfluenced instrumentals. The group has been working Boulder County with weekly gigs since their formation in 2013 and may just be the best little-known secret around. That secret is set to be let loose with the upcoming release of their debut EP, The Common Collapse, this weekend. You can hear it up-close and personal at the Bohemian Biergarten, where Augustus is having a CD release party and performing with fellow Americana act Whiskey Autumn.
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Shorts BIFF Shorts 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303443-8696.
Guest Recital: Denise Tryon, horn. 7:30 p.m. Chamber Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. Jazz Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Just Sayin. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Laughing Hands. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Power Lung Rangers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Quick and Easy Boys. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 see EVENTS Page 44
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The Boulder International Film Festival won’t be fully taking over downtown again until March 5, but that doesn’t mean you have to go BIFF-less until then. On Thursday, Nov. 13, BIFF will be holding their last event of 2014 with their exclusive showing of the Best of BIFF Shorts at eTown Hall. The screening will showcase the best short comedies seen over the past 10 years at the festival. BIFF always makes it a party — happy hour starts at 6 p.m. and the film program follows at 7 p.m.
Warm Cookies of the Revolution: Will robots really fix/ destroy everything?
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6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720865-4220.
Never one to duck the big issues, “civic health club” Warm Cookies of the Revolution has tackled civil rights, LGBT issues, city design and more with engaging discussions, hands-on activities and, yes, cookies, to help make civic engagement easy and fun. The next Warm Cookies meeting will be contemplating whether robots, automation and computers will fix everything or destroy everything through a discussion with local robot makers, roboticists, app designers and labor activists.
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String Attached Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Events Amazing Artists. 3:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & Swing. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Business Research 101. 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. GED classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
FUNKIPHINO
The Great Indian Novel. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Saturday Nov 15
Open Access: Painters & Potters. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
“Colorado’s Dance Funk Sensation”
STEVE THOMAS BAND “80s Rock”
Tuesday Nov 18
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Thursday Nov 20
Ladies Night featuring
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Free Admission Happy Hour Drink Prices for the Ladies
Friday & Saturday Nov 21/22
THE STRANGE PARADE
Tango Intermediate Drop in Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
Friday, November 14 Music Atomic Pablo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Bear. 6 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209. Blue Canyon Boys. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
“A Tribute To The Doors” And
David & Enion Tiller. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.
“A Tribute To The Beatles”
David Potter. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-9086036.
DOCTOR ROBERT Sunday Nov 23
Defunkt Railroad. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder.
“World Music” Free Admission
Eric Adrian. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-4492911.
Wednesday Nov 26
Fox Feather. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
RANSOLI-CAMACHO
Annual Pre-Thanksgiving Eve Show
NELSON RANGELL “Contemporary Jazz”
Friday/Saturday Nov 28 & 29
CITIZEN DAN
“Straight-Up Steely Dan”
Wednesday Dec 3
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ART/TEKNE: Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/ Nature’s Creative Potential — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through Dec. 20. Buy — Sharon Feder. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Nov. 16. Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.
Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 12. MFA 2014 Fall Thesis Exhibition — Various artists. CU Art Museum,1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Nov. 20.
Funkiphino. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Global Soul Experience. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Hornbuckle. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Idlewhile. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Jeff Brinkman. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472. Karl Werne. 8 p.m. Little Tree Acoustic House Concert Series, Lafayette, 303-661-0891.
Purple Squirrel. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Dancin’ Divas. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Randall Dubis. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.
Freaky Fridays — for Teens — Mod Podge. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.
The Sweet Lillies. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Twiddle. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Liminal. 7:30 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181.
Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center’s 20th Anniversary Gala. 5 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Lindsey Saunders. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.
The Zimmermans. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Lulu Granji. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Events
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Many Mountains & Martian Acres. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Papa Juke. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.
Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.
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Pete Kartsounes. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.
Conversaciones en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Memory: Loss and Found — by Laurie Beth Zuckerman and Susan Wechsler. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.
Cabinets of CuriosART/TEKNE: Metaphorming Naity — by Clayton Blair ture will be on display at the CU Oil Paintings by Steven Dougherty, various artArt Museum through Dec. 20. Homsher. Community Art ists. Longmont Center Program Gallery, NCAR, for The Arts Muse 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Gallery, 356 Main St., Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29. Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Dec. 23 Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth Defaced — Various artists. Boulder Museum of — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 30314th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. 443-2122. Through Jan. 8. Through Aug. 27, 2017. Discovering & Interpreting the West — 21st Photography by Fernando Boza. Community Century Landscapes. Main Gallery, Arvada Center Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29. Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Nov. 16. Photography and Vision: The Influence of Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, 865-5000. Through Feb. 15. Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Jan. 25. Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Recent Aquisitions — by Oliver Herring. Denver Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720720-865-5000. Through Jan. 18, 2015. 865-5000. Through Jan. 18. A Table (Somewhat): Conversations First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Between Objects — by Various artists. CU Art Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 8300. Through Dec. 20. 720-865-5000. Through March 22. Veterans Speak — Various artists. The Dairy Matisse and Friends — by Henri Matisse Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, and friends. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 303-440-7826. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.
Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
(SE Corner of 95th & Arapahoe)
Through Jan. 25.
Lyons Weekly Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236. Masterpiece Makers: All About Animals. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Minecrafternoons* at Meadows. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Tango Ground School Class. 6:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Warren Miller’s No Turning Back. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Wisdomkeepers. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282. see EVENTS Page 46
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EVENTS from Page 44
Saturday, November 15 Music Americana Highway. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.
WEEKLY EVENTS Tuesday Open Mic in the Opera House
Live Music Tuesday and Wednesday In the Tavern
THIS WEEKEND Friday, Nov 14 • 8pm
HORNBUCKLE
Saturday, Nov 15 • 8pm
DREAMBOAT ANNIE: SISTERS OF ROCK
UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday, Nov 18 - 6pm - In the Tavern
BRIAN REZAC
Wednesday, Nov 19 - 6pm - In the Tavern
ESTHER SPARKS
Friday, Nov 21 & Saturday, Nov 22 • 8pm
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NEW BREED DANCE COMPANY Tuesday, Nov 25 - 6pm - In the Tavern
THE PRAIRIE SCHOLARS Wednesday, Nov 26 - 6pm - In the Tavern
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Friday, Nov 28 • 8pm
COSMIC SERENITY
Saturday, Nov 29 • 8pm
GLASS DELIRIUM & RESONANCE
Wednesday, Dec 17 - 6pm - In the Tavern
ArtsJam Fundraiser for Agile International. 2 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303449-4410. Ben Hanna Band. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. The Burroughs. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. The Clarks. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Dreamboat Annie: Sisters of Rock. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Eric Adrian. 6:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Fast Eddy. 7 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Healing Sounds of the Cosmos with Internationally Renowned Throat Singer Matthew Kocel. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-823-8452. Holy Ghost Tent Revival. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Intergalactic Radio. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Isa and JoeAlan. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Jalbatross. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Liminal. 7:30 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Missy Racho. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Mountain Standard Time. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Nick O’Connor. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-5300642. The North Boulder Underground. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.
The Map of Heaven — by Eben Alexander. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-4472074
Rewilding Our Hearts — by Marc Bekoff. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.
Tuesday, Nov. 18
Don’t Be Afraid of the Bullets — by Laura Kasinof. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074
The Wild Truth — by Carine McCandless. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
Innisfree: Bombay Gin. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
The Point of Direction. From Our Shelves Bookclub. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074
Friday, Nov. 14
Sunrise Delayed — by Frank Kreith. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074
Innisfree: Coffee Cupping. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Baking Bible — by Rose Levy Beranbaum. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
Carine McCandless will discuss and sign his new book The Wild Truth at the Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, Nov. 19.
Monday, Nov. 17 Save by Roy — by Terry Frei and Adrian Dater. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, Nov. 19
Innisfree: Third Man Records. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. The Wild Truth — by Carine McCandless. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303447-2074
Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.
Campus, Boulder. Tango Night at BTS. 9 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Tango Technique Class with G&G. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Third and Fifth Saturday swing with Live Music! 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. WOW!’s 18th Birthday Party. 10 a.m. WOW Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.
Exhibit Opening: Steps in Stone. 12 p.m. CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building UCB 218 1030 Broadway, Boulder.
Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Fall Equinox Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Center, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Steve Itterly. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Fly Tying Class with Cody Burgdorff. 9:30 a.m. Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-494-1375.
Sunday, November 16
The Steve Thomas Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture Fundraiser. 5 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Them Raggedy Bones. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Touch of Blue. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.
Tuesday, Dec 30 - 6pm - In the Tavern
Vocal Competition. 7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 303-402-6400. The Wolftones. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.
Events Adobe Premiere Pro Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-8004647. Beginner Class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
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Ken Walker Sextet. 7:30 p.m. Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303665-0599.
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Lyons Weekly Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236. Rocks Karma Arrows Film & Panel Discussion. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Shadow Dancing. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Stained Glass Mosaic Owl Workshop. 10 a.m. Kasia Mosaics Art Studio, 6231 Fourmile Canyon Drive, Boulder, 347-579-3351. Steps In Stone, Walking Through Time. 10 a.m. CU Museum of Natural History South Entrance, Henderson Building, 15th Street and Broadway, Boulder, 303-4926892. Stories Behind the Musical Masterpiece. 1 p.m. Room 108, Benson Earth Sciences Building, CU-Boulder
Zumba plus Zumba Toning 90 Minute Class. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Music
Cahalen Morrison Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. California Guitar Trio. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Dana Cooper, Strangebyrds. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Honeytree. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Liminal. 2 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Matt Skinner Band. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel see EVENTS Page 48
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Directed by Joan Kuder Bell Performed at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $25 General Admission $21 Students/Seniors Thursdays: Name-Your-Price Nights! Tickets available at www.thedairy.org or call (303) 444.7328
Performances may sell out - we strongly recommend reservations for all performances
The Adventures of Dracula. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Nov. 29.
Seussical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Nov. 30.
Boulder Playback Theatre. The Dairy Center for the Arts. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Nov. 17 only.
Sherlock’s Holmes & The Masters of Crime. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 22.
Fiddler on the Roof. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 28.
Songs for a New World. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Dec. 21.
Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 1.
Reason will be showing at the Dairy Center for the Arts through Nov. 16.
This is How it Was: Reports From the Front. Veterans Speak. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Nov. 19 only.
Reason — Maya Productions/Veterans Speak. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 16.
To the Lighthouse — Stories on Stage. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303-2960219. Nov. 15 only.
Legally Blonde the Musical Jr. Center Stage Theatre Company. Louisville Middle School, 1341 Main St., 303-673-0744. Through Nov. 16.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Nov. 16.
EVENTS from Page 46 Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Ostevetto Jazz Trio. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-4428292. Sol Quatro. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Jess Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. The Library Concert Series Presents: My Heart, A Well of Tears. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Master Artist Studies: Van Gogh. 1 p.m. WOW Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Movement Mass. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Reynolds Teen DIY. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Samba and Afro Brazilian Dance Workshops. 10 a.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020B 21st St., Boulder, 303-447-2566. Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Sunday Morning Zumba. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
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Music Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Ekstrand Competition Finals. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Stephen Thurston Duo. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Events Birds of Prey Slide Program. 6 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 West Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-6655200. Cinema Program Free Screening of Ida. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Clay & Sculpt. 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
German Speaking Table. All Day. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Scandinavian Dance Basics & Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Web Fundamentals. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Wheel Throwing. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Women and the Body Series with Melissa Michaels. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Women of the West Monday. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Zumba Plus Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
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Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Moon Boots. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Blues Jam. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
Pendulum New Music. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.
Faculty Tuesday: Daniel Silver — Clarinet. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.
The Reverie. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.
Basics of Blogging. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. BSD Rehearsals or Intermediate Intensive Class.
7:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Danceophile Studio/Postoley Dance Ensemble/Tom Masterson. 7:45 p.m. Danceophile Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-8303. Engaging Children’s Emotions in Learning. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Socrates Cafe. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. U.N. and International Affairs. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th Street and Pearl Street, Boulder, 800807-6179. Wheel Throwing Adults. 7:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902.
Open Studio | All Ages Art Class. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio,
Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 5:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. Lucky’s Market, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 201, Longmont, 303-827-3684. Ron Legault Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Events Beginner Class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. GED classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Storytimes for Children. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Tango Intermediate Drop In Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series presents “Jazz Nicholson.” 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Wheel Throwing 1. 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Wheel Throwing 2. 5 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Wednesday, November 19 Music Acoustic Open Mic. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Chance Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Esther Sparks. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Fast Eddy Duo. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Hope Lights the Night. 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949
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‘Do the Right Thing’ 25 years later
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n Nov. 15, the Starz Denver Film Festival will screen a 35mm revival of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, a movie that is as relevant today as when it debuted in 1989. This past summer’s headlines out of Ferguson, Missouri, and the death of Eric Garner in New York, make it clear that the events the film depicts on a hot summer day in Brooklyn in 1989 remain a sad, cruel reality for many black men in 2014. The film was Lee’s third feature and is quite possibly his best. Lee writes, produces, directs and acts in this stylish tour de force about a NYC neighborhood where blacks, Puerto Ricans and Koreans live in tedious resentment under the constantly suspecting eyes of a white police force. Even though the racial makeup of the block is black and Puerto Rican, its two businesses are run by Sal (Danny Aiello) and a Korean couple (Steve Park & Ginny Yang): a pizzeria and a grocery story respectively. Sal’s Famous Pizzeria has been there for years — before the demographic of the neighborhood shifted — and Sal is more than happy to take their money and smile at their ladies, but there is no way he’s putting a picture
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of a brother on his wall of heroes. That is where Sinatra, DiMaggio and Pacino belong, and if Buggin’ Out (Giancarlo Esposito) doesn’t like it, he can open his own pizzeria. Also populating the block: Da Mayor (Ossie Davis) and Mother Sister (Ruby Dee), the busybodies of the neighborhood; Mookie (Lee), Sal’s pizza delivery boy; and the loudest, the proudest, the articulate and aggressive, Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn). With his boom box turned up
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as loud as it will go, Raheem blasts Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” on loop, bringing Robert Mitchum’s message of Right Hand/Left Hand to all who will listen, stating that in the end, love always wins. What’s so impressive about Do the Right Thing is how Lee incorporates perspectives. When Raheem delivers his Right Hand/Left Hand speech, it is directly to the camera. When characters hurl racist remarks, they do it directly to the camera. When radio DJ
Veterans Speak presents this documentary of five severely wounded Iraq/Afghanistan veterans given the opportunity to explore their experiences through the healing power of humor. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
closes in on Saigon as the South Vietnamese resistance crumbles. A number of heroic Americans engage in unsanctioned and often makeshift operations in a desperate effort to save as many South Vietnamese lives as possible. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a coward who has spent his life accommodating others so that he can “belong.” Marcello agrees to kill a political refugee, on orders from the fascist government, even though the victim-to-be is his college mentor. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job soon after, the couple must sell their apartment and temporarily live apart. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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Set in the 1920s on the opulent Riviera in the south of France, this Woody Allen flick is a romantic comedy about a master magician (Colin Firth) trying to expose a psychic medium (Emma Stone) as a fake. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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Mister Señor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson) calls for time, “Y’all take a chill!” he does it staring down the barrel of the lens. Lee places us firmly in these characters’ shoes and dares us to judge. Do the Right Thing debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May of 1989 and came out in theaters a little over a month later. At the time, there were a few (mainly middle-aged white men) who worried that it would invoke black audiences to riot. What they saw was a black mob destroying a pizzeria, not the atrocity that led to it. The ending of Do the Right Thing remains one of the most powerful and complex endings in all of cinema. Lee ends his movie with two quotes, one from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. decrying violence, and one from Malcolm X, approving its use — when necessary. Do the Right Thing is a rare work of art that balances the contradictions that are a part of everyday life without feeling the need to reconcile them. To quote Walt Whitman, “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
directed by Daniel Barenboim. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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A strange man, who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and killed by a man out for a drive with his girlfriend. The driver then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal and that his victim is not actually dead. Only 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium (1B20).
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ventures but also Cooper’s kids, Murphy ( Jessica Chastain) and Tom (Casey Affleck), as they age on Earth and cry a lot. In fact, if there is one defining characteristic of Interstellar it is weeping; nonstop, grating, irritating weeping. As though the set were built on a bed of freshly cut onions, Nolan confuses having people act sad with making his audience feel something. McConaughey cries like 50 times, Hathaway cries, Chastain cries, Affleck cries…hell, Michael Caine cries. And he’s British. They don’t do that. It is as though Nolan is some kind of overly intellectual alien attempting to learn emotions. “Why human cry? Human sad? Oh, human cry when sad!” This would explain the scene in which Hathaway attempts to describe love as a function of quantum physics. The worst part, hands down, is what will be referred to as “the twist.” It isn’t a twist, however, as it takes anyone who has seen a sci-fi movie literally five minutes to know the ending. Oy vey and that ending… For the record, Mr. Nolan, having a character spout nonsense gibberish about fifth dimension temporal understanding is no different than saying, “Ta-da! Magic!” Looking no prettier than the TV show Cosmos and not as space-terrifying as Gravity, Interstellar is easily the year’s biggest disappointment and the shiniest turd several hundred million dollars can shine. Inception was proof that Nolan is capable of constructing a vastly entertaining and original, intelligent blockbuster. Interstellar makes me want to watch Inception again. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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he Hotel Boulderado spent much of this year revamping its culinary amenities with overhauls transforming the basement-level Catacombs Bar into License No. 1, and the upstairs and upscale sitdown, Q’s, into Spruce. The, ahem, “sprucing up” was finished and launched in August, and those readers that haven’t yet had a chance to stop in and see the overhaul first hand are missing out. The interior redesign worked to bring out the original moldings and carpentry of the historic hotel for lovely effect, making for an atmosphere that feels classy and approachable at the same time. The same can be said of the menu at Spruce, which follows the downtown Boulder model of simple American standards done well. The smoked porkloin chop from the big plates menu ($23), served with roasted potatoes, seared greens and a fresh vegetable succotash is delectable, with the sweet tang of pork perfectly complimented by the smoky bourbon barbecue au jus sauce. The large bowl of caramelized brussels sprouts from the small plates menu ($7) is another standout dish, taking
find this far inland. The most impressive item on the seafood menu may be the crispy whole snapper, which is served with roasted red potatoes, almonds and slaw in a Romesco sauce for $26. I didn’t get a chance to try it, but felt the immediate onset of orderer’s remorse when a server delivered one to my neighbor’s table. Plated, the full deep-fried fish had a regal appearance like the first appearance of a Thanksgiving turkey. The dessert menu isn’t easy to pick a single item from, but this reporter would recommend the peanut butter French silk tart, which is made with salted peanut brittle, vanilla beans anglaise and cocoa sauce. It is a mic-dropper of a dessert; richer than Trump, sweeter than victory and capable of completely wiping away one’s cares for a spell. Until you make it back to the gym, anyhow. Spruce is a bit too expensive for the average wage-earner to become a regular at, but it’s also affordable enough that you can splurge without skipping a house payment. And if you’re looking for a nice but low-key night out, Spruce is just the thing. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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As previously reported just about everywhere, Colorado burrito peddlers Illegal Pete’s recently came under fire from Latino activists in Fort Collins for the restaurant’s name, despite it being a reference to a book the chain’s owner Pete Turner likes, not a reference to immigration status. In response, Turner met with community members regarding the matter in Fort Collins, in which community members requested that he change the name of his company. Attendees explained their perceptions of the negativity in using the word “illegal” in the context of a Mexican food
restaurant. Immigration attorney Kim Medina moderated the meeting and summed up the opposition by saying, “Social context is hugely important. We’ll never get to big issues, such as immigration reform, until we can solve these smaller issues of language,” as reported by The Coloradoan. But as Turner explained in a blog post on the Illegal Pete’s website, he ultimately decided to stick with the name. “[The word illegal] is just as much a part of our company as the bricks and the concrete floors and the queso that we make,” Turner wrote. Those opposed to the restaurant’s name are not pleased with the decision to continue as Illegal Pete’s, but the owner is sticking to his guns. Turner’s complete statement can be read at http://illegalpetes.com/blog/community/ concerning-the-name-illegal-petes/. — Nadia Mishkin
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DRINKING WINE SPO-DEEO-DEE DRINKING WINE
On Nov. 15, the For anyone who Boulder Public Library is wants to warm up with hosting the Boulder some wine tasting while County Farmers’ Market’s supporting a good cause first annual fundraiser. this week, there are sevAll proceeds from the eral options for you: event will go toward the On Friday, Nov. 14, farmers’ market’s newest the City of Arvada is putproject in the works: a ting on its annual Wine local foods education stafor the Holidays event: a tion and café at the night full of local wines, Boulder Public Library, set hors d’oeurves and live to open in early 2015. The music entertainment by Boulder County Farmers’ the Bluebird “arc-estra” Market plans for the café for just $35. There will also to serve tasty, locally be a silent auction with sourced items year-round, items donated by nearwhile educating on susby businesses, so you tainable food and local can kick off your holiday agriculture. The café will shopping while supportinclude a space for discusing the holiday fund for sions and gatherings that the Arvada Community In wine, there is truth. In wine festivals, aims to be a one-stopFood Bank. there are a lot of both. shop for finding out the latTickets can be purest on eating locally, and chased online: www. sampling the options at the same time. arvadafestivals.com Cure Organic Farms, Oxford Gardens, Out Boulder is holding their eighth annual Cafe Aion, Niwot Market, Ollin Farms and event at the Boulder Creek Winery on more are teaming up with BCFM and the Saturday, Nov. 15. Attendees will get to samBoulder Public Library to bring to fruition the ple Colorado wines while enjoying cheese library’s new concept café. The fundraiser, and conversation at the award-winning which takes place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. will establishment — all supporting the Boulder preview the café’s vision by pairing up four County LGBT community organization. local chefs with four local farms and brewerCan’t get enough? The Denver ies to create an all Boulder-sourced meal International Wine Festival is hosting three that will be served at the event. The meal will days of award-winning wine and gourmet be followed by a silent auction and enterfood pairings Nov. 19-21 at the Omni tainment provided by a slam poetry reading Interlocken Resort in Broomfield. by farmers and other community particiTickets can be purchased online: http:// pants. Tickets can be purchased online for www.denverwinefest.com/order.html $90 at www.bcfm.org. — Nadia Mishkin — Nadia Mishkin
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ven without a polar vortex sneak attack, this week on the calendar is one in which people tend to prefer the roaring heater vent of home to the chilling winds whipping through Boulder’s streets, even if the streets come with a nice ’07 merlot. “It’s traditionally a lower revenue time for restaurants,” says Kate Lacroix, founder of Dishwire. “People aren’t always spending right before the big holidays.” That’s why Lacroix and her partner Josh Dinar of Dining Out Magazine picked this week to make an official event of something that arguably exists in the shadow of the Flatirons year-round: First Bite Boulder Restaurant Week. From Friday, Nov. 14 to Sunday, Nov. 22, more than 50 restaurants in Boulder County are offering specially-prepared and discounted prix fixe three-course menus. And we’re talking places where you might normally pay $27 for a plate, not a full three-course meal. Participants include top-notch nosheries like Colterra, Jill’s at the St Julien, Salt and Brasserie Ten Ten. The Chautauqua Dining Hall will be doing up your choice of buffalo short ribs with sweet potato hash, winter greens, oyster mushroom demi-glace and Volpaia poached cippolini onion or Colorado striped bass with wild mushroom risotto, citrus sage brown butter, fresh herbs and Meyer lemon, folsee RESTAURANT WEEK Page 58 Blooming Beets Restaurant tuna tartare dish
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lowed by your choice of flourless chocolate cake or candied bourbon bacon. The Boulder ChopHouse will be doing up New York strip steaks, chicken picatta, pork chops and salmon. Want to go veggie? Paleo-wonderland Blooming Beets is making a PowerGreens and Seaweed-Hempseed Salad,
or you can swing by Leaf and choose between main courses of succotash and rosemary barley, vegan sweet potatoes au gratin or a gorgonzola and walnut tart. There are choices for vegetarians, vegans, gluten-free, gmo-free, paleo and nearly any other diet out there.
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“It’s very Boulder in that it represents a wide range of diet and eating patterns,” says Lacroix. Lacroix says the central criteria for a restaurant’s involvement is that they’re bringing special value to the table that diners are willing to pay for. “We want people to be able to support a $27 meal,” she says. Even a restaurant like Modmarket is wonderful, but I don’t know if its a right fit. It would have to be something where someone feels like they’re getting a value for three course for $27.” For example, Volta. “They do this thing called saganaki, which is a greek cheese that they flambé, so they actually pour an alcohol on top of the cheese and light it and let it crisp, and then they extinguish it and pour lemon on it,” she says. “It is on their regular menu, but I think it will be a surprise to a lot of people. If you have the choice between that and a salad, then you might want to try something new.” But then again, the calamari salad that diners have as another option at Volta might just as well count as a new experience. And hence the fun of restaurant week. Other than new restaurants like Blooming Beets, Ella Fine Diner and Caffè Sole, experienced restaurantweekers might notice one big (but not that big) change. “After 9 years, we did hike the price by one whole dollar,” says Lacroix. “We’re definitely falling behind on the rate of inflation though. So hopefully people won’t be too cross about it.” For those that want to get fully into the spirit, or are a bit hesitant to shell out $27, Boulder Restaurant Week will launch with First Sip, a free party complete with gratis drinks and snacks at PrAna on Thursday, Nov. 13. “It includes beer and wine and DJ and a chance to win a head-to-toe outfit,” Lacroix says. “PrAna is going to pick two people and dress them in style for their restaurant week outing.” More info, including the full list of participating restaurants and their menus, is available at www. FirstBiteBoulder.com. And you’ll want to study up ahead of time, not just for the options this week, but for the long winter months to come in which you don’t want to slave over a stove. “It’s the first bite of the eating season,” Lacroix says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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reat American Beer Festival aficionados and local craft lovers both have reason to head to Longmont this Saturday, Nov. 15 from 3–7 p.m. The trendsetting brewers at Left Hand Brewing Company are rolling out a unique event to celebrate their 21st anniversary: Nitro Fest. Twenty of the best breweries in America will be bringing a versatile array of beers for lucky attendees to sample and savor. Though it was long the domain of Guinness Stout, American craft brewers have readily embraced nitrogenated beer over the last ten years for the complex layering it can impart upon beers, especially malt-heavy brews like porters and stouts. But in this era of experimentation, brewers are putting even hoppier beers through the process. Where most beers use carbon dioxide for carbonation that adds a bubbly and sparkling characteristic when you drink (the bubbles steadily rising from a fresh poured beer are evidence of this), nitro is the polar opposite. Due to the fact nitrogen is largely insoluble in liquid, it creates a thicker, creamier head and mouthfeel that slides smoothly down your throat. It is only logical that Left Hand would be hosting such an event to celebrate this special style of beer; they are one of the acknowledged leaders in nitro beers. Their 2011 launch of Nitro Milk Stout was a game changer — it was the first nitrogenated craft beer in the nation that poured directly from the bottle and is one of their top sellers. They followed that in 2013 with Boulder Weekly
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We all have addictive and obsessive tendencies. They are fundamental to being human. So the challenge is not to eliminate them — that’s not possible — but rather to harness them. If you hope to keep them from dragging you down, you must work hard to channel them into activities that enhance your life. How are you doing on this score, Aries? Are you chronically dependent on drugs, gambling, sugar, or chaotic relationships? Or are you, instead, hooked on the courage you summon when you face your fears and the willpower you invoke as you free yourself from your limitations? Now is an excellent time to upgrade your addictive and obsessive tendencies.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20:
Our planet’s most abundant mineral is called bridgmanite. It’s an amalgam of iron, magnesium, silicon, and oxygen. Until recently, no one had actually seen it because it lies so deep underground it can’t be reached by digging tools. Scientists have only known about it from studying how earthquake waves moved through it. That changed in the last few years, when two mineralogists found bridgmanite in an ancient meteorite. They were able to analyze the nuances of this basic mineral for the first time. I predict a comparable development for you, Taurus. In the coming months, you will become more familiar with a core part of you that has always been a mystery. The revelations may occur with the help of an influence that resembles a meteorite.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20:
Some conspiracy theorists are paranoid that aliens or government agencies use radio waves to try to control their minds. They wear tin foil hats to protect themselves from the evil transmissions. But a recent study shows that this protective head gear has an effect that’s opposite to what it’s supposed to. In fact, it actually amplifies the intensity of radio frequencies, making it even more likely that mindcontrol signals would work their dastardly magic. This problem probably does not apply to you, but I suspect you are suffering from a comparable glitch. An approach you’re pursuing or an attitude you’re cultivating is having an impact contrary to what you imagine. Now is an excellent time to make adjustments.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
I can’t remember the last time you’ve had as much artistic freedom as you have now. It’s as if life has given you a slew of wild cards and X-factors to play with. You don’t have to answer to the past as much as you usually do. You are less beholden to the demands of duty and the constraints of karma. Here’s the best perk: You have been authorized by both the higher powers and lower powers of the cosmos to fall in love. With whom? With what? Everyone! Everything!
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“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.” Winston Churchill said that, and now I’m passing it along to you — with one caveat. I don’t expect you to be perfect, and never will. To shoot for perfection is risky. It may set up unrealistic expectations that lead to bad mental hygiene. It tempts you to avoid messy experiences, some of which might be essential to your growth. So I will offer a revised version of Churchill’s maxim for your use: If you want to improve, you must change. If you want to keep improving, you must change often. And the coming months will be prime time for you to keep improving and improving and improving.
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21:
“Sex is like pizza,” said comedian Mel Brooks. “Even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.” That’s a generalization, of course. I’m sure you can think of times in your past when mediocre pizza and mediocre sex were just plain mediocre. But work with me on the overarching principle, Scorpio: Some of the finer things in life just can’t be spoiled. They are always at least moderately pleasurable and interesting and lucky — and usually more than just moderately so. According to my reading of the astrological omens, your immediate future will be filled to the brim with these finer things.
SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
Ancient people knew about Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn because all of those planets are visible to the naked eye. From the second millennium B.C. until the late 20th century, only three additional planets were found: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (Pluto was later reclassified as a dwarf planet, however.) Then in 1992, astronomers began to locate planets orbiting other stars. On one spectacular day in February of 2014, NASA announced it had identified 715 new planets. I foresee a similar uptick for you in the next seven months, Sagittarius. Your rate of discoveries is about to zoom.
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When Evan Lattimer’s 92-year-old father died in 2007, she inherited his large collection of odd relics. It included a cigar smoked by W. C. Fields, Greta Garbo’s driver’s license, Abraham Lincoln’s shaving mirror, a bearskin coat owned by General George Custer, and Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis. Many items turned out to be quite valuable to collectors. One eager bidder offered to buy the famous genitalia for $100,000. I suspect that in the coming months, you will experience events that have some resemblances to this story. For example, the legacy you receive may not be what you expected, but could turn out to be more useful than you imagined.
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For much of its history, the United States claimed ownership of the ocean within three miles of its coasts. That changed in 1988, when the federal government declared that hereafter it would have sovereignty over the ocean as far as 12 miles from land. With that action, American territory increased dramatically. I invite you to consider a comparable expansion in the coming months, Leo. Seize more space. Seek further privileges. Ask for a bigger piece of everything.
Here’s your assignment: Get more organized and purposeful about having fun. Think harder about what makes you feel good, and plan more aggressively to bring those feel-good experiences into your life. In offering these prescriptions, I’m not advocating irresponsible hedonism. Not at all. In my view, you will become a better servant of those you care about by boosting your commitment to pleasure. You will carry out your duties with more aplomb and effectiveness. Raising your joy quotient is actually a formula for becoming a better human being.
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Poland’s most renowned ghost hunter is frustrated. Having invested a fortune in spectral detection equipment, Piotr Shalkevitz finds that there are fewer and fewer spooks to investigate as the years go by. I’m not qualified to speak about whether or not the whole world is experiencing a decline in the ghost population. But I’m confident that this is exactly what is happening for you Virgos. Recently, the haunted elements of your life have begun to dissipate. And in the next eight months, I expect that you will be freed from most, maybe all, of the ghosts and pesky demons that attached themselves to you once upon a time.
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The Appalachian Mountains span 1,500 miles from Newfoundland to Alabama. They are the seventh longest range in the world. And yet they have shrunk over the eons. Their average height is 3,000 feet, but when they were young they were probably twice that high. What happened? There has been constant erosion caused by rivers, glaciers, wind, tree roots, lichens, and oxidation. Rain and condensation have also played a role because when water freezes, it expands, creating a wedging force. I propose that we make what has happened to the Appalachians a symbol of what’s possible for you in the next eight months, Pisces. Through steady, small actions, you can significantly grind down a mountainous obstacle.
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Dear Dan: I consider myself one of the lucky ones: happily married for decades, with a long-term girlfriend. GF is at this point part of the family, and while it hasn’t always been an easy arrangement to sort out, it has worked for over a decade. Recently, I’ve been talking with other nonmonogamous folk and find myself wondering whether I have any responsibility to publicly admit details about my multi-partner lifestyle. Though it’s probably obvious to those we interact with regularly (GF is routinely part of holiday family functions and picks up kids after school, etc.), we have never been directly ASKED, nor have we told. On the one hand, I want others to know that workable long-term nonmonogamy isn’t just a pipe dream, but on the other, the details of my personal life are nobody’s business. I’m certainly no role model, but am I crazy to feel guilt for not being openly poly? — Nonmonogamous, Utterly Normal, Yet Apprehensive Dear NUNYA: Not everyone who’s poly can be out, NUNYA, just as not everyone who’s gay, bi, trans, kinky, or poz can be out. But the only way to dispel myths about poly people and poly relationships — poly people are all burners, poly relationships don’t work out for the long term, all nonmonogamous relationships ultimately fail — is for poly people to come out when and where they can. So if you’re in a position to be out, NUNYA, you should come out. And while your poly relationship isn’t anyone’s business, it’s not something you should have to hide, either. Dear Dan: I am a straight female who has been in a relationship for the last decade. We are high-school sweethearts who lost our virginity to each other. We are now engaged, but for the last few years, we have been having a recurring issue. He wants a three-way desperately. He thinks about it all the time, and it seems to come up in almost every conversation we have. I feel that this goes beyond just a fantasy. We used to have a great sex life, but now I feel as if I have to beg for it. He wants this to happen NOW. I think it should just happen natuBoulder Weekly
rally if it is going to happen. I don’t think there should be any pressure on it. We tried going to a swingers club, met a couple, and fooled around. He started to have sex with the wife, and it was okay. The wife was not interested in me at all, though. I agreed to all of this because I have always been bi-curious, but I never had the opportunity, so needless to say I did not enjoy myself very much during this encounter. My fiancé was not satisfied, though. He still keeps bringing it up. I think it is a deeper feeling that he missed out because we got together so young. I have repeatedly told him I am fine with taking a break so he can go get some other ass before we get married, but he will not listen. I am completely satisfied. We are both happy and love each other. I just constantly have guilt about being the reason he can’t have what he wants. Is there anything I can do? Please, help. — Not Enough For Him Dear NEFH: When a person says she wants something sexual to happen “naturally,” NEFH, what she means is “spontaneously.” Three-ways don’t happen that way. An opposite-sex couple that wants to have a threeway is gonna have to make an effort, NEFH. You’ll have to take out personal ads, go to swingers clubs, and approach trusted friends or exes and carefully broach the subject. (A gay couple that wants to have a threeway? They just have to leave the house. Pretty much.) So your fiancé is right: This won’t happen if you don’t make it happen. But your fiancé is also being a douche. If three-ways are all he can talk about, and if he’s so obsessed with three-ways that he’s not interested in two-ways (with you) anymore, then he’s consciously or subconsciously sabotaging your relationship. Offer him a deal: So long as he makes the two-ways happen, you’ll help make the three-ways happen. On the Lovecast, Dan and Janet Yassen from RAINN talk about recovering from rape: savagelovecast.com mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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t was great to hear that Boulder City Council decided at its Nov. 6 meeting to relook at some of the rules created to regulate the cannabis industry. Overall, council and staff did an admirable job under enormous time constraints after last year’s floods, but as we approach the end of one year of legalization, it’s not a bad time to take a second look at its Tourist shops can sell these items, but not dispensaries. own decision-making. One of the rules to be reviewed currently doesn’t allow retail shops smacks of way-over-the-top government to sell any marijuana-related merchanand sell cannabis paraphernalia. I took regulation. I’ve lived here long enough dising. It’s understandable that council the photos on this page during a recent to recognize that Boulder is proud of its would be wary at the beginning, espestroll down the Pearl Street Mall. A over-regulation, but when the city procially after Boulder County Health reccannabis shop on the mall couldn’t sell motes its own “brand” with T-shirts and ommended no dispensary merchandisthese items, but tourists (and teenagers) caps and they are an option for any ing, arguing that it might induce teencan pick them up at Peppercorn or other business that wants to print them, agers to try cannabis. Where the Buffalo Roam. Admirable though that sentiment is Both downtown displays are discreet it seems hypocritical to single out dispensaries. — and I’m in complete agreement with and tasteful, entirely proper and take up The latest numbers (all of which BCH that cannabis needs to be kept a small amount of inventory space. should be taken with a grain of salt) away from teenagers — there are some Peppercorn’s is limited to books and a indicate no increase in use among teenthings that render it a strange rule for a few other items. The Where the Buffalo agers since legalization. The state — town whose voters overwhelmingly sup- Roam material is interspersed amongst and it has tried on many occasions — ported legalization and where there is the beer, football and official University has found no instance of an underaged not much evidence of a causal relationof Colorado gear. But that’s not the person buying from a dispensary, so ship between cannabis and teens. point, which is that anybody can buy a whatever cannabis the underaged get Although Lyons limits its merchandise, T-shirt, whether it advertises beer, the comes from the black market (which no other municipality has this rule. The Buffs, Snoop Dogg or cannabis, in these doesn’t check IDs), the small number of county has no such rule. The state places. But under current Boulder statunderaged medical patients or, more allows merchandising. Only the city of utes, a dispensary can’t sell a T-shirt or likely, their own or other teens’ parents. Boulder bans it. cap even with just its name and logo. So when it comes to teens, legalAnother interesting thing about this Since every other business can do ization hasn’t changed anything — this, not allowing dispensaries to offer one is that there is no rule that disallows they’re getting it from the same places merchandise people can buy elsewhere any other business in town to advertise
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